Late Arcade【電子書籍】[ Nathaniel Mackey ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A new volume of the singular, ongoing, great American jazz novel＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Nathaniel Mackey’s ＜em＞Late Arcade＜/em＞ 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 ＜em＞The Egyptian Book of the Dead＜/em＞ 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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞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”ーoil spills, N.’s memory of his mother’s melancholy musical Sundaysー which all becomes the source of fresh artistic invention.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Here is the newest installment of the National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Mackey’s ＜em＞From a Broken Bottle Tr．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る