Author: POWERS, RICHARD
Title: The Time of Our Singing
Description: NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. 0374277826. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374277826. First edition, first printing (full number line). Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over yellow boards, gilt lettering on spine. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and--against all odds and better judgment--they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. But their three children must survive America's brutal here and now. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up during the Civil Rights era, come of age in the violent 1960s, and live out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, "whose voice could make heads of state repent," follows a life in his parents' beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, chooses a militant activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generational tale, struggles to remain connected to them both. THE TIME OF OUR SINGING is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket ($27.00), has a large closed tear on the rear panel but is now in Mylar, else fine. FINE/GOOD.. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 640 pp. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0374277826 Literature Novels Romance Race Relations African-American Literature Novels, Poetry & Literature Women
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Title: The Time of Our Singing
Description: NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. 0374277826. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374277826. First edition, first printing (full number line). Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over yellow boards, gilt lettering on spine. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and--against all odds and better judgment--they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. But their three children must survive America's brutal here and now. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up during the Civil Rights era, come of age in the violent 1960s, and live out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, "whose voice could make heads of state repent," follows a life in his parents' beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, chooses a militant activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generational tale, struggles to remain connected to them both. THE TIME OF OUR SINGING is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket ($27.00), has a large closed tear on the rear panel but is now in Mylar, else fine. FINE/GOOD.. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 640 pp. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0374277826 Literature Novels Romance Race Relations African-American Literature Novels, Poetry & Literature Women
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 29010
- Book number: 29010
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