From a broken bottle traces of perfume still emanate.
By: Nathaniel Mackey.
Contributors: Mackey, Nathaniel, 1947-; Mackey, Nathaniel, 1947-; Mackey, Nathaniel, 1947-
Edition: 1st American pbk. ed.
Publisher: New Directions; New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780811218443
Subjects: Jazz musicians -- Fiction; Bands (Music) -- Fiction; Epistolary fiction, American; Musical fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "[Book title] is a lifelong epistolary novel that unfolds through N.'s intimate letters to the mysterious Angel of Dust. Unexpected, profound happenings occur as N. delves into music and art and the goings-on of his transmorphic Los Angeles-based jazz ensemble, in which he is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. The story opens in July 1978 with a dream of a haunting Archie Shepp solo, and closes in September 1982 on a glass-bottomed boat borne aloft by the music."--Back cover.
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