Albert Murray, Author . Pantheon $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-42142-6
According to National Book Critics Circle Award–winner Murray (The Hero and the Blues; etc.), the central character of his three novels, Scooter a.k.a. Jack the Rabbit, "has to be nimble or nothing. He's got to be resilient... he's
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Albert Murray, Author Vintage Books USA $19 (252p) ISBN 978-0-679-75859-4
A cultural theorist examines blues and jazz stereotypes. (July)
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Albert Murray, Author Pantheon Books $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43986-8
The young black hero of Murray's Train Whistle Guitar and The Spyglass Tree comes of age in this ambitious and vibrant conclusion to the trilogy, set in the 1920s. Here, Scooter has been nicknamed Schoolboy, for his new college degree. A talented...
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Albert Murray, Author Pantheon Books $20 (80p) ISBN 978-0-375-42141-9
Albert Murray's ""Aubades: epic exits and other twelve bar riffs"" evokes the ""freight train"" and ""sawmill whistles"" of hard labor before the ""singer"" gets around to romance. In the next piece, the blues are abandoned in favor of a pert,...
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Ralph Waldo Ellison, Author, Albert Murray, Author, John Callahan, Editor Modern Library $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-50367-2
""I had chosen to re-create the world, but, like a self-doubting god, was uncertain whether I could make the pieces fit smoothly together. Well, its done now and I want to get on to the next one."" In this passage from a 1951 letter to his literary...
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