The Magic Keys - Softcover

Murray, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400095530 ISBN 13: 9781400095537

Verlag: Vintage, 2006

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"Impressive. . . . [Aslam's] prose is stylistically dazzling. . . . His characters' inner lives are explored in-depth, flaws and all. . . . A novel as affecting as it is provocative."-Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Extraordinary. . . . It deepens our knowledge of life. . . . Aslam has created a novel which-grave yet exultant, brutal but compassionate-achieves its complex humanity, and its final affirmations of love and beauty, through a real reckoning with despair and heartbreak."- The New York Review of Books

"Artful . . . and heartbreaking. . . . [Aslam's] prose is richly atmospheric, his tone engagingly introspective."-The New York Times Book Review

"A writer's tour de force. . . . Powerful."-San Francisco Chronicle

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The Magic Keys winningly evokes the coming to maturity of one of the great characters in contemporary American literature: Scooter, the central protagonist of Albert Murray’ s highly acclaimed autobiographical novels Train Whistle Guitar, The Spyglass Tree, and The Seven League Boots.

Growing up brilliant and curious in Alabama, Scooter was told he was destined for greatness. Now newly married and a graduate student in humanities at New York University, he goes about discovering just what he is destined to be great at. Anchored by Eunice, his “Mrs. Me,” Scooter makes the rounds of Manhattan’ s libraries, jazz hangouts, galleries, skyscrapers, and endlessly fascinating streets, meeting the people who will help him find his way: dapper Taft Edison, who is setting their down-home dialect onto the pages of his novel-in-progress; Joe States, a drummer who brings old expectations to Scooter’s new life; and Jewel Templeton, no longer his girl but still a believer. When his budding career takes him back to Alabama, Scooter discovers both the promise of everyday bliss and intimations of adventures to come.

In his inimitably musical, ardent prose, Murray captures the joyful rhythms of youth and the pulse of life at the moment when everything seems possible, in an exhilarating, tender, and masterfully crafted novel.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400095530
• ISBN 13: 9781400095537
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256