The magic keys
By: Albert Murray
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: African American men -- Fiction; Graduate students -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "Rowing 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" --Publisher description.