Valaida - Softcover

Allen, Candace

 
9781844081721: Valaida
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1844081729 ISBN 13: 9781844081721
Verlag: Virago, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Valaida listened hard. After the melody's intro and Earl's left-hand-to-right-hand cascades of piano sound, her space opened, and Valaida jumped in. She blew. She entered the music, saw the chords, embellishes, the references to other songs as plain as day behind her eyeballs, and she used them. She jumped from bar to bar like a benzine-fueled billy goat. She didn't miss. She hit her peaks and whinnied in triumph. In the nebular light of the Terrace's mirror ball, she flew with the men who had backed Louis Armstrong at his best.'

From a childhood in Chattanooga, to a debut at one of the swankiest clubs in Harlem in its heyday; from touring in the Jim Crow south, to showcasing in Shanghai and London in the 30s, the story of Valaida Snow is breathtaking. With a storyteller's ear and a blessed ability to transport her reader, Candace Allen has written a sweeping tale of love, degradation, laughter and longing - with a trumpet accompaniment you swear you can hear.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Candace Allen received her BA from Harvard before attending the New York University School of Film and Television, becoming the first African-American female member of the Directors Guild of America. She has been an assistant director, a screenwriter and now a novelist.

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1844081729
ISBN 13 
9781844081721
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
504
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Verantwortliche Person
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