書誌事項

Collected novels & poems

Albert Murray ; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Paul Devlin, editors

(The library of America, 304)

Library of America, c2018

タイトル別名

Albert Murray, collected novels and poems

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注記

Map on endpapers

Chronology: p. 913-939

収録内容

  • Train whistle guitar
  • The spyglass tree
  • The seven league boots
  • The magic keys
  • Conjugations and reiterations

内容説明・目次

内容説明

One of the leading cultural critics of his generation, Albert Murray was also the author of an extraordinary quartet of semi-autobiographical novels, vivid impressionistic portraits of black life in the Deep South in the 1920s and '30s and in prewar New York City. Train Whistle Guitar (1974) introduces Murray's recurring narrator and protagonist, Scooter, a "Southern jackrabbit raised in a briarpatch" too nimble ever to receive a scratch. Scooter's education in books, music, and the blue-steel bent-note blues-ballad realities of American life continues in The Spyglass Tree (1991), Murray's "Portrait of the Artist as a Tuskegee Undergraduate." The Seven League Boots (1996) follows Scooter as he becomes a bass player in a touring band not unlike Duke Ellington's, and The Magic Keys (2005), in which Scooter at last finds his true vocation as a writer in Greenwich Village, is an elegaic reverie on an artist's life. Editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin round out the volume with a selection of Murray's remarkable poems, including 11 unpublished pieces from his notebooks, and two rare examples of his work as a short story writer.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB2550502X
  • ISBN
    • 9781598535617
  • LCCN
    2017939511
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    977 p.
  • 大きさ
    21 cm
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