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Nathaniel Mackey's Late Arcade opens in Los Angeles. A musician known only as N. writes the first of a series of letters to the enigmatic Angel of Dust. N.'s jazz sextet, Molimo m'Atet, has just rehearsed a new tune: the horn players read from The Egyptian Book of the Dead with lips clothespinned shut, while the rest of the band struts and saunters in a cosmic hymn to the sun god Ra. N. ends this breathless session by sending the Angel of Dust a cassette tape of their rehearsal.
Over the next nine months, N.'s epistolary narration follows the musical goings-on of the ensemble. N. suffers from what he calls "cowrie shell at- tacks"--oil spills, N.'s memory of his mother's melancholy musical Sundays-- which all becomes the source of fresh artistic invention.
Here is the newest installment of the National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, the great American jazz novel of "exquisite rhythmic lyricism" (Bookforum).
| ISBN-13 | 9780811226608 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0811226603 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.30 x 0.60 x 8.00 In |
| List Price | $16.95 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 224 pages |
| Publisher | New Directions |
| Published On | 2017-02-28 |
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