Joplin's Ghost: A NovelSimon and Schuster, 2005 M09 20 - 496 páginas *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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... inside of his as if he were a hollow glove . The power of her youth coursed through him , elec- tric . " Play , Scott . Use my hands to play . " Before Scott's amazed eyes , his fingers webbed apart , stretching . He wiggled them all ...
... inside of his as if he were a hollow glove . The power of her youth coursed through him , elec- tric . " Play , Scott . Use my hands to play . " Before Scott's amazed eyes , his fingers webbed apart , stretching . He wiggled them all ...
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... inside knowledge Phoenix thought Gloria had no business knowing at eleven — but that was Gloria . ) Over time , though , Phoenix began to resent the performers her fa- ther worked for . It was bad enough Sarge was gone as often as he ...
... inside knowledge Phoenix thought Gloria had no business knowing at eleven — but that was Gloria . ) Over time , though , Phoenix began to resent the performers her fa- ther worked for . It was bad enough Sarge was gone as often as he ...
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... inside 565 Alton Road since the two - story brick building first opened its doors in 1927 as an all - girls ' school , be- fore the building fell from grace as a flophouse , then found salvation as a jazz club . The piano had been ...
... inside 565 Alton Road since the two - story brick building first opened its doors in 1927 as an all - girls ' school , be- fore the building fell from grace as a flophouse , then found salvation as a jazz club . The piano had been ...
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... inside , fresh from her near miss with death , tears shimmering in her eyes . She wasn't crying out of gratitude , or because she'd abandoned her bourgeois status symbol in the middle of the road and nearly been killed . No , Leah was ...
... inside , fresh from her near miss with death , tears shimmering in her eyes . She wasn't crying out of gratitude , or because she'd abandoned her bourgeois status symbol in the middle of the road and nearly been killed . No , Leah was ...
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... inside . His baby girl had lived , so he'd been set free . Truly free , this time . The biggest change , though , was Phoenix's . Instead of carrying her dog - eared copy of the Guinness Book of World Records with her everywhere she ...
... inside . His baby girl had lived , so he'd been set free . Truly free , this time . The biggest change , though , was Phoenix's . Instead of carrying her dog - eared copy of the Guinness Book of World Records with her everywhere she ...
Contenido
Sección 18 | 273 |
Sección 19 | 291 |
Sección 20 | 306 |
Sección 21 | 323 |
Sección 22 | 343 |
Sección 23 | 363 |
Sección 24 | 387 |
Sección 25 | 399 |
Sección 9 | 144 |
Sección 10 | 157 |
Sección 11 | 168 |
Sección 12 | 184 |
Sección 13 | 203 |
Sección 14 | 215 |
Sección 15 | 233 |
Sección 16 | 246 |
Sección 17 | 261 |
Sección 26 | 401 |
Sección 27 | 414 |
Sección 28 | 420 |
Sección 29 | 432 |
Sección 30 | 448 |
Sección 31 | 450 |
Sección 32 | 479 |
Sección 33 | 483 |
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Términos y frases comunes
ain't arms Arturo asked beneath blinked breath called Carlos Carlos's D'Real damn DJ Train door doorway dream eyes face father feel fingers Freddie Freddie's G-Ronn gazing girl Gloria gone gonna hair hand head hear heart Heather Jamal Lewis Jan Hamilton Janet Jackson Johnita Joplin House JOPLIN'S GHOST Kendrick kiss knew laughed Lauryn Hill Leah lips living looked Lottie Louis Louis Chauvin Louis's Maple Leaf Rag Marcus Milton mind Negro never night nodded opera Osiris parlor Party Patrol Phee Phoenix felt Phoenix heard Phoenix saw Phoenix thought piano play psychic pulled ragtime realized remembered Ronn Ronn's Rosenkranz Sarge Sarge's Scott Joplin Sedalia Serena shit shook shoulder singing skin sleep smile sorry sound stared suddenly sure talk TANANARIVE DUE tell thing told tonight Treemonisha trying voice waiting walked watching whispered words Yeah دو
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 217 - What do you want from me? What can I do to help you?
Página 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.
Página 140 - You have my bio," she said. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out a folded press release with theTSR logo.
Página 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,
Página 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.