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Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems (Loa #304): Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems

Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems (Loa #304): Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems

Gates, Henry Louis
Murray, Albert
Devlin, Paul

Hardcover

Series: Library of America Albert Murray Edition, Book 2

General Fiction

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ISBN10: 1598535617
ISBN13: 9781598535617
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Feb 13 2018
Pages: 977
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Complete in one volume for the first time, the joyous, jazz-saturated fiction of one of our foremost African American writers, including the four-novel Scooter sequence

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 and Paul Devlin round out the volume with a selection of Murray's remarkable poems, including 11 unpublished pieces from his notebooks, and two rare examples of his work as a short story writer.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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