The Time of Our Singing - Couverture souple

Powers, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099453835 ISBN 13 : 9780099453833

Editeur : Vintage, 2004

Synopsis

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities.

Jonah, Ruth and Joseph are the children of mixed-race parents determined to raise them beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. Yet they cannot be protected from the world forever.

Even as Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, the opera arena remains fixated on his race. Ruth turns her back on classical music and disappears, dedicating herself to activism and a new relationship. As the years pass, Joseph – the middle child, a pianist and our narrator – must battle not just to remain connected to his siblings, but to forge a future of his own.

This is a story of the tragedy of race in America, told through the lives and choices of one family caught on the cusp of identities.

‘An epic novel of modern America that weaves ideas of race, music and science into a mysterious but satisfying tapestry... Endlessly fascinating’ Independent

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099453835
• ISBN 13: 9780099453833
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 640
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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