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| The Time of Our Singing
On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish eacute;migreacute; scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them toge...
More > On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish eacute;migreacute; scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and-against all odds and better judgment-they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the Civil Rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, "whose voice could make heads of state repent," follows a life in his parents' beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both.
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| File Size | 1.25 MB |
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| Publisher | Macmillan
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| Publish Date | 01/01/2004 |
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| Print Pages | 640 |
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| Print ISBN | 0312422180 |
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| eBook ISBN | 0374705747 |
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| eBook List Price | $ 16.00 |
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Richard Powers
Richard Powers is the author of nine novels and has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He lives in Illinois.
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