Joplin's Ghost
A Novel
$44.81
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2006
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743449045 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0743449045 |
| Author: | Tananarive Due |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 483g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm x 33mm |
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Critics Review
“Due shows herself true to her own powerful gift.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)
”[M]ore than just a ghost story is Due’s sense of musical and cultural history…. Even while she brings to life Scott Joplin the man, Due makes us appreciate Scott Joplin the icon, the symbol. This understanding gives Joplin’s Ghost its haunting power.” – The Washington Post
“In this ambitious and action-packed novel, Tananarive Due blurs genre boundaries as adroitly as her ghost walks through walls. Part love story, part ghost story, part historical fiction, part contemporary adult drama, this book is difficult to categorize – and impossible to put down.” – Valerie Boyd, author of Wrapped in Rainbows:The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
About The Author
Tananarive Due
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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