Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
355 pages ; 25 cm |
Summary |
"An ensemble-cast novel about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, following a jazz musician and the multiple women-some charmed by him, others scorned-who find the power of their own voices in this thrilling debut It's 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies man, lives for his music, and refuses to be tied down. Before a gig in Miami, he learns that the woman who is secretly closest to his heart, the free-spirited drummer Maggie, is pregnant by him. He flees instead of facing the necessary conversation, setting off a chain of interlocking revelations from the various women in his life. Most notable among them is his teenage daughter Koko, who idolizes him; she's awakening to her own sexuality even as her mentally fragile mother struggles to overcome her long failed marriage and rejection by Circus. Delivering a lush orchestration of diverse female voices, Warrell spins a provocative, soulful and gripping story of passion and risk, fathers and daughters, wives and single women, and finally hope and reconciliation, in answer to the age-old question: how do we find belonging when love is unrequited?"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Jazz musicians -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Fathers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst00921890
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Jazz musicians. (OCoLC)fst00982205
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Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
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Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Novels.
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ISBN |
9780593316443 (hardcover) |
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0593316444 (hardcover) |
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