Joplin's Ghost: A NovelSimon and Schuster, 20 вер. 2005 р. - 496 стор. *From the author of The Reformatory—A New York Times Notable Book of 2023* In this chilling historical novel that's part love story, part ghost story, a female singer's life spins horrifically out of control as a long-dead music legend chooses her to continue his legacy. When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when she was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano. Now twenty-four, Phoenix is launching a career as an R&B singer. She's living out her dreams and seems destined for fame and fortune. But a chance visit to a historical site in St. Louis ignites a series of bizarre, erotic encounters with a spirit who may be the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin. The sound of Scott Joplin is strange enough to the ears of the hip-hop generation. But the idea that these antique sounds are being channeled through Phoenix? Her life is suddenly hanging in the balance. How will she find her true voice and calling? Can the power of her own inner song give Phoenix the strength to fight to live out her own future? Or will she be forever trapped in Scott Joplin's doomed, tragic past? Stunningly original, Joplin's Ghost is a novel filled with art and intrigue—and is sure to bring music to readers' ears. |
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... never seen a more grateful audience. To these men, at least, he would never be forgotten. God help me, was this where my life was supposed to take me? All so I could be here today to ease the journey for a few wretched souls like me ...
... never seen a more grateful audience. To these men, at least, he would never be forgotten. God help me, was this where my life was supposed to take me? All so I could be here today to ease the journey for a few wretched souls like me ...
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... never done a single remarkable thing . Phoenix got good grades , but her schooling hadn't caught afire . She'd always liked to sing , but she had what her chorus teacher called a Fourth - Place voice , never likely to place in the top ...
... never done a single remarkable thing . Phoenix got good grades , but her schooling hadn't caught afire . She'd always liked to sing , but she had what her chorus teacher called a Fourth - Place voice , never likely to place in the top ...
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... never through with her stories of the starvation and broken bodies from her days with a ballet company in Boston , but as long as Phoenix had known her , her mother had weighed more than two hundred pounds . " What's up , Buttercup ...
... never through with her stories of the starvation and broken bodies from her days with a ballet company in Boston , but as long as Phoenix had known her , her mother had weighed more than two hundred pounds . " What's up , Buttercup ...
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... never a three . The piano scooted forward and teetered . “ Hey ! ” Phoenix said . The piano's sudden weight against her hands scared her , so she drew back and stepped down a step . Above her , the piano rocked , tipping . The piano was ...
... never a three . The piano scooted forward and teetered . “ Hey ! ” Phoenix said . The piano's sudden weight against her hands scared her , so she drew back and stepped down a step . Above her , the piano rocked , tipping . The piano was ...
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... never heard of another effort to free him . Worse , he'd realized that the very people he'd gone to prison hop- ing to motivate and liberate were sitting home laughing at Archie Bunker , Jimmie Walker and " The Jeffersons , " never ...
... never heard of another effort to free him . Worse , he'd realized that the very people he'd gone to prison hop- ing to motivate and liberate were sitting home laughing at Archie Bunker , Jimmie Walker and " The Jeffersons , " never ...
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Сторінка 399 - WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance...
Сторінка 399 - And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;— then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
Сторінка 165 - An old, worn harp that had been played Till all its strings were loose and frayed, Joy, Hate, and Fear, each one essayed, To play. But each in turn had found No sweet responsiveness of sound. Then Love the Master-Player came With heaving breast and eyes aflame ; The Harp he took all undismayed, Smote on its strings, still strange to song, And brought forth music sweet and strong.
Сторінка vii - Query: when we are dreaming and, as so often happens, have a dim consciousness of the fact and try to wake, do we not say and do things which in waking life would be insane? May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality. "Sleep hath its own world," and it is often as lifelike as the other.
Сторінка 438 - Bedside of a Neighbor." This song apparently dates back to her mother's time. BEDSIDE OF A NEIGHBOR I was standing- by the beside of a neighbor Who was just about to cross the swelling tide, And I asked him if he would do me a favor: Kindly take this message to the other side.
Сторінка 217 - What do you want from me? What can I do to help you?
Сторінка 344 - Although this work completed by one of the Ethiopian race will hardly be accepted as a typical American opera for obvious reasons, nevertheless none can deny that it serves as an opening wedge, for it is in every sense indigenous.
Сторінка 140 - You have my bio," she said. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out a folded press release with theTSR logo.
Сторінка 117 - The day is fast approaching when a great colored composer will be recognized in this country, especially if he advances from being a ragtime idol. "I don't feel any new rags coming,
Сторінка 344 - It is in no sense ragtime, but of that peculiar quality of rhythm which Dvorak used so successfully in the New World Symphony, the reviewer had said.