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Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (2012, Paperback) ex-library first U.S. edition
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller Notes
- “Ex-library--stamps, stickers, and plastic over the cover.”
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Modification Description
- Ex-library--stamps, stickers, and plastic over the cover.
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- Yes
- Title
- Half-Blood Blues
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Age Level
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Modified Item
- Yes
- Vintage
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Special Attributes
- Ex-Library
- Personalized
- No
- ISBN
- 9781250012708
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250012708
ISBN-13
9781250012708
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110948002
Product Key Features
Book Title
Half-Blood Blues : a Novel
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Cultural Heritage, African American / General, Crime, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-044816
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Unforgettable...Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction., "Unforgettable…Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction." - The Globe and Mail (Toronto)"A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal…[A] brilliantly fast-moving novel." - The Times (London)"Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism…Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its shimmering jazz vernacular, its pitch-perfect male banter and its period slang." - The Independent (London) "Ingenious." - The Daily Telegraph (London)"Destined to win a wide audience…Deftly paced in incident and tone, moving from scenes of snappy dialogue, in which band members squabble and banter humorously, to tense, atmospheric passages of description…Edugyan makes fresh tracks in this richly-imagined story… Half-Blood Blues itself represent a kind of flowering-that of a gifted storyteller." - The Toronto Star, "Unforgettable…Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction." - The Globe and Mail (Toronto) "A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal…[A] brilliantly fast-moving novel." - The Times (London) "Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism…Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its shimmering jazz vernacular, its pitch-perfect male banter and its period slang." - The Independent (London) "Ingenious." - The Daily Telegraph (London) "Destined to win a wide audience…Deftly paced in incident and tone, moving from scenes of snappy dialogue, in which band members squabble and banter humorously, to tense, atmospheric passages of description…Edugyan makes fresh tracks in this richly-imagined story… Half-Blood Blues itself represent a kind of flowering-that of a gifted storyteller." - The Toronto Star, Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism...Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its shimmering jazz vernacular, its pitch-perfect male banter and its period slang., Destined to win a wide audience...Deftly paced in incident and tone, moving from scenes of snappy dialogue, in which band members squabble and banter humorously, to tense, atmospheric passages of description...Edugyan makes fresh tracks in this richly-imagined story... Half-Blood Blues itself represent a kind of flowering--that of a gifted storyteller., "Unforgettable...Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction." -- The Globe and Mail (Toronto) "A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal...[A] brilliantly fast-moving novel." -- The Times (London) "Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism...Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its shimmering jazz vernacular, its pitch-perfect male banter and its period slang." -- The Independent (London) "Ingenious." -- The Daily Telegraph (London) "Destined to win a wide audience...Deftly paced in incident and tone, moving from scenes of snappy dialogue, in which band members squabble and banter humorously, to tense, atmospheric passages of description...Edugyan makes fresh tracks in this richly-imagined story... Half-Blood Blues itself represent a kind of flowering--that of a gifted storyteller." -- The Toronto Star, A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal...[A] brilliantly fast-moving novel.
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939 . The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris caf . He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952 . Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film's premier, Sid's role in Falk's fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led to Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art., Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939 . The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café. He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952 . Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film's premier, Sid's role in Falk's fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led to Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.
LC Classification Number
PR9199.4.E35H35 2012
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