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Time Of Our Singing by Richard Powers (Hardcover, 2003)

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In 1939 at Marion Anderson's great protest concert in Washington, a German-Jewish emigre physicist and a young black contralto are brought together by concern over a lost child. They eventually marry and have three children, bringing them up in a hot-house atmosphere of music and maths, hoping to raise them to have no awareness of race as an issue in their lives. All three are musically talented, but they cannot be protected from the world for long. Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, but the world of opera can only accept him as a 'brilliant Negro singer'; Joseph, our narrator, becomes a pianist and devotes his talents to the service of his brother's; Ruth turns her back on classical music ('white music') and disappears, on the run with her black husband under suspicion of being a Black Panther. Powers brilliantly and devastatingly delineates the tragedy of race in America, as it unfolds from the Civil Rights movement to Rodney King and Louis Farrakhan, through the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities. This is a hugely ambitious - and brilliantly achieved - novel, as brilliantly clever as Powers' previous novels, but also deeply political and deeply moving.

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Publisher
Cornerstone
ISBN-13
9780434010608
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91245287

Product Key Features

Book Title
Time of Our Singing
Author
Richard Powers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2003
Number of Pages
640 Pages

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Item Weight
926g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Richard Powers
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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