Powers Richard
Powers Richard - The Time Of Our Singing A Novel - Paperback
Powers Richard - The Time Of Our Singing A Novel - Paperback
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Description: The last novel where I rooted for every character and the last to make me cry. - Marlon James Elle From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted and divided family set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall David Strom a German Jewish migr scientist meets Delia Daley a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together and against all odds and their 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. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self - invention allegiance race cultural ownership the compromised power of music and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.
Title: The Time Of Our Singing A Novel
Author(s): Powers Richard
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250829672
Pages: 640 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/5/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: The last novel where I rooted for every character and the last to make me cry. - Marlon James Elle From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted and divided family set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall David Strom a German Jewish migr scientist meets Delia Daley a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together and against all odds and their 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. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self - invention allegiance race cultural ownership the compromised power of music and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.
Title: The Time Of Our Singing A Novel
Author(s): Powers Richard
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250829672
Pages: 640 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/5/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
