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From A Broken Bottle Traces Of Perfume Still Emanate
Nathaniel Mackey
Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run, Atet A.D.
New Directions Publishing Corporation
August 2010
On Sale: July 30, 2010
560 pages ISBN: 0811218449 EAN: 9780811218443 Paperback
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The great American jazz novel of “such exquisite rhythmic
lyricism” (Bookforum) by National Book Award Winner
Nathaniel Mackey. From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume
Still Emanate: Volumes 1-3 collects the first three
installments—Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus’s Run, and
Atet A.D.—of Nathaniel Mackey’s genre-defying work of
fiction. A project that began over thirty years ago, From a
Broken Bottle is an epistolary novel that unfolds through
N.’s intricate letters to the mysterious Angel of Dust.
Unexpected, profound happenings take place as N. delves into
music and art and the goings-on of his transmorphic Los
Angeles-based jazz ensemble, in which he is a composer and
instrumentalist. This triple-set book opens in July 1978
with a dream of a haunting Archie Shepp solo, and closes in
September 1982 in a parallactic studio recording session on
a glass-bottomed boat borne aloft by the music. The fourth
volume of Mackey’s novel, Bass Cathedral—also available from
New Directions—was chosen by The New York Times as one of
100 Notable Books of 2008. But that it didn’t end there…
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