Purchase
Chango's Beads And Two-Tone Shoes
William Kennedy
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers.
Viking
October 2011
On Sale: September 29, 2011
Featuring: Daniel Quinn
336 pages
ISBN: 0670022977
EAN: 9780670022977
Kindle: B0052RDJEK
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Fiction
When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at
the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea
that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will
change his life radically overnight. So begins William Kennedy's latest novel-a tale of
revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked
politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and
the improbable rise of Fidel Castro. Quinn's epic journey
carries him through the nightclubs and jungles of Cuba and
into the newsrooms and racially charged streets of Albany on
the day Robert Kennedy is fatally shot in 1968. The odyssey
brings Quinn, and his exotic but unpredictable Cuban wife,
Renata, a debutante revolutionary, face-to-face with the
darkest facets of human nature and illuminates the power of
love in the presence of death.
Kennedy masterfully
gathers together an unlikely cast of vivid characters in a
breathtaking adventure full of music, mysticism, and
murder-a homeless black alcoholic, a radical Catholic
priest, a senile parent, a terminally ill jazz legend, the
imperious mayor of Albany, Bing Crosby, Hemingway, Castro,
and a ragtag ensemble of radicals, prostitutes,
provocateurs, and underworld heavies. This is an
unforgettably riotous story of revolution, romance, and
redemption, set against the landscape of the civil rights
movement as it challenges the legendary and vengeful Albany
political machine.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy