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April 2000 hardcover 2nd printing with a warm (and long) inscription (which always means to a particular person) by the author on the ffep. A little denting on dj, white paint stains and a little sunning on cover, a few tiny corner folds and a bit of sunning, else fine. Oversize book extra shipping charges will apply for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope. Seller Inventory # ABE-1710191560889
Bibliographic Details
Title: Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A novel
Publisher: Pantheon
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: 1st Edition.
About this title
This is flap copy....
Crouch's novel tells the story of a mixed-race couple, both musicians, living in New York City. Maxwell is a black sax player; Carla is a white jazz singer. Their love for each other seems to transcend race--yet the great American dilemma keeps interfering, and as they try to gain acceptance from friends and family, jazz is the one thing that soothes them. In a typical altercation, a black man in a parking lot derides Carla as a "stringy-haired white girl." But as she listens to Maxwell perform immediately afterward, the very notes he plays seem like the best possible rebuttal, "more masculine and more tender and more androgynous and more than male or female or happy or sad or frightened or brave or knowing or befuddled than anything she had ever heard her man play."
Don't the Moon Look Lonesome is an awkwardly written novel, and a slow-moving one at that. Long passages are devoted to descriptions of the music Carla and Maxwell create, and while Crouch has inherited Albert Murray's mantle as one of our most lively jazz critics, his own voice merges with those of his characters in an odd and distracting way. They end up sharing both the author's appetite for provocation and his wordiness, which undermines the greatest mystery of music in the first place--its wordlessness. Crouch also has a propensity for bizarre metaphors attributed to inner states, a prime example being this thorny item: "the sudden spread of this interior cactus." Finally, female readers should be warned: one of Carla's major strengths is that despite her white skin, she has a black ass. Perhaps that's progress. And perhaps Crouch's editors were so intimidated by his reputation that they neglected to tell him when he was playing out of tune. --Emily White
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