Joplin's Ghost: A Novel

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Simon 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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Sección 1
9
Sección 2
37
Sección 3
39
Sección 4
58
Sección 5
73
Sección 6
93
Sección 7
111
Sección 8
127
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
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Sección 15
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Sección 16
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Sección 17
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Sección 26
401
Sección 27
414
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420
Sección 29
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Sección 30
448
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Sección 32
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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.

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Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at TananariveDue.com.

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