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Title:
Cahokia jazz : a novel
Summary:
Like his earlier novel Golden Hill, Francis Spufford’s Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, now through the lens of a subtly altered 1920s—a fully imagined world full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly epic proportions, a troubled soul to fall in love with as you are swept along by a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot. On a snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. Down below, streetcar bells ring, factory whistles blow, Americans drink in speakeasies and dance to the tempo of modern times. But this is Cahokia, the ancient indigenous city beside the Mississippi living on as a teeming industrial metropolis, filled with people of every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But that corpse on the roof will spark a week of drama in which this altered world will spill its secrets and be brought, against a soundtrack of jazz clarinets and wailing streetcars, either to destruction or rebirth. -- Amazon.
General Note:
Includes family tree [page 437].
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
436 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Publisher:
Scribner,
Publication Date:
2024

2023
ISBN:
9781668025451
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Scribner, 2024.

©2023
Call Number:
SPUFFORD
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