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Late Arcade

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Mackey, N
February 28, 2017

A new volume of the singular, ongoing, great American jazz novel Nathaniel Mackey’s Late Arcade opens in Los Angeles. A musician known only as N. writes the first of a series of letters to the enigmatic Angel of Dust. N.’s jazz sextet, Molimo m’Atet, has just rehearsed a new tune: the horn players read from The Egyptian Book of the Dead with lips clothespinned shut, while the rest of the band struts and saunters in a cosmic hymn to the sun god Ra. N. ends this breathless session by sending the Angel of Dust a cassette tape of their rehearsal. Over the next nine months, N.’s epistolary narration follows the musical goings-on of the ensemble. N. suffers from what he calls “cowrie shell at- tacks”―oil spills, N.’s memory of his mother’s melancholy musical Sundays― which all becomes the source of fresh artistic invention. Here is the newest installment of the National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Mackey’s From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, the great American jazz novel of “exquisite rhythmic lyricism” (Bookforum).

Duke Scholars

ISBN

9780811226615

Publication Date

February 28, 2017

Publisher

New Directions Publishing
 

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Mackey, N. (2017). Late Arcade. New Directions Publishing.
Mackey, N. Late Arcade. New Directions Publishing, 2017.
Mackey N. Late Arcade. New Directions Publishing; 2017.
Mackey, N. Late Arcade. New Directions Publishing, 2017.
Mackey N. Late Arcade. New Directions Publishing; 2017.
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ISBN

9780811226615

Publication Date

February 28, 2017

Publisher

New Directions Publishing