Nathaniel Mackey

Late Arcade

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A new volume of the singular, ongoing, great American jazz novel Nathaniel Mackey's Late Arcade opens in Los Angeles. A musician known only as N. writes the first of a series of letters to the enigmatic Angel of Dust. N.'s jazz sextet, Molimo m'Atet, has just rehearsed a new tune: the horn players read from The Egyptian Book of the Dead with lips clothespinned shut, while the rest of the band struts and saunters in a cosmic hymn to the sun god Ra. N. ends this breathless session by sending the Angel of Dust a cassette tape of their rehearsal.Over the next nine months, N.'s epistolary narration follows the musical goings-on of the ensemble. N.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2661-5
EAN: 9780811226615
Produktnummer: 34248680
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 668 KB

Über den Autor

Nathaniel Mackey was born in Miami, Florida in 1947. He is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, and has received many awards for his work, including the National Book Award in poetry for Splay Anthem, the Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society, and the Bollingen Prize from the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Mackey is the Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University, and edits the literary journal Hambone.