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Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (2012, Paperback) ex-library first U.S. edition

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“Ex-library--stamps, stickers, and plastic over the cover.”
Country of Origin
United States
Modification Description
Ex-library--stamps, stickers, and plastic over the cover.
Signed
No
Ex Libris
Yes
Title
Half-Blood Blues
Narrative Type
Fiction
Age Level
Adults
Inscribed
No
Modified Item
Yes
Vintage
No
Type
Novel
Special Attributes
Ex-Library
Personalized
No
ISBN
9781250012708
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250012708
ISBN-13
9781250012708
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110948002

Product Key Features

Book Title
Half-Blood Blues : a Novel
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Cultural Heritage, African American / General, Crime, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Author
Esi Edugyan
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-044816
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Unforgettable...Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction., "Unforgettable…Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction." - The Globe and Mail (Toronto)"A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal…[A] brilliantly fast-moving novel." - The Times (London)"Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism…Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its shimmering jazz vernacular, its pitch-perfect male banter and its period slang." - The Independent (London) "Ingenious." - The Daily Telegraph (London)"Destined to win a wide audience…Deftly paced in incident and tone, moving from scenes of snappy dialogue, in which band members squabble and banter humorously, to tense, atmospheric passages of description…Edugyan makes fresh tracks in this richly-imagined story… Half-Blood Blues itself represent a kind of flowering-that of a gifted storyteller." - The Toronto Star, "Unforgettable…Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction." - The Globe and Mail (Toronto) "A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal…[A] brilliantly fast-moving novel." - The Times (London) "Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism…Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its shimmering jazz vernacular, its pitch-perfect male banter and its period slang." - The Independent (London) "Ingenious." - The Daily Telegraph (London) "Destined to win a wide audience…Deftly paced in incident and tone, moving from scenes of snappy dialogue, in which band members squabble and banter humorously, to tense, atmospheric passages of description…Edugyan makes fresh tracks in this richly-imagined story… Half-Blood Blues itself represent a kind of flowering-that of a gifted storyteller." - The Toronto Star, Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism...Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its shimmering jazz vernacular, its pitch-perfect male banter and its period slang., Destined to win a wide audience...Deftly paced in incident and tone, moving from scenes of snappy dialogue, in which band members squabble and banter humorously, to tense, atmospheric passages of description...Edugyan makes fresh tracks in this richly-imagined story... Half-Blood Blues itself represent a kind of flowering--that of a gifted storyteller., "Unforgettable...Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction." -- The Globe and Mail (Toronto) "A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal...[A] brilliantly fast-moving novel." -- The Times (London) "Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism...Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its shimmering jazz vernacular, its pitch-perfect male banter and its period slang." -- The Independent (London) "Ingenious." -- The Daily Telegraph (London) "Destined to win a wide audience...Deftly paced in incident and tone, moving from scenes of snappy dialogue, in which band members squabble and banter humorously, to tense, atmospheric passages of description...Edugyan makes fresh tracks in this richly-imagined story... Half-Blood Blues itself represent a kind of flowering--that of a gifted storyteller." -- The Toronto Star, A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal...[A] brilliantly fast-moving novel.
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939 . The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris caf . He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952 . Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film's premier, Sid's role in Falk's fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led to Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art., Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939 . The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café. He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952 . Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film's premier, Sid's role in Falk's fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led to Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.
LC Classification Number
PR9199.4.E35H35 2012

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