Mary Morris

The Jazz Palace

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Boomtown Chicago, 1920s-a world of gangsters, musicians, and clubs. Young Benny Lehrman, born into a Jewish hat-making family, is expected to take over his father's business, but his true passion is piano-especially jazz. After dark, he sneaks down to the South Side to hear the bands play. One night he is asked to sit in with a group. His playing is first-rate. The trumpeter, a black man named Napoleon, becomes Benny's friend and musical collaborator. They are asked to play at a saloon Napoleon has christened The Jazz Palace. But Napoleon's main gig is at a mob establishment, which doesn't take kindly to their musicians freelancing . As Benny and Napoleon navigate the highs and the lows of the Jazz Age, a bond is forged between them that is as memorable as it is lasting. Morris brilliantly captures the dynamic atmosphere and dazzling music of an exceptional era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9781101872864
• ISBN-10: 1101872861
• Artikelnr.: 43338358

Autorenporträt

Mary Morris is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels A Mother’s Love and House Arrest, as well as the travel memoir classic Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone. The recipient of the Rome Prize in literature and a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, she was raised in Chicago and now lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. www.marymorris.net