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From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus´s Run, Atet A.D.
Nathaniel Mackey
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Description for From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus´s Run, Atet A.D.
Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 147 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580.
From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Volumes 1-3 collects the first three installments—Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus’s Run, and Atet A.D.—of Nathaniel Mackey’s genre-defying work of fiction. A project that began over thirty years ago, From a Broken Bottle is an epistolary novel that unfolds through N.’s intricate letters to the mysterious Angel of Dust. Unexpected, profound happenings take place as N. delves into music and art and the goings-on of his transmorphic Los Angeles-based jazz ensemble, in which he is a composer and instrumentalist. This triple-set book opens in July 1978 with a dream of a haunting ... Read more
From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Volumes 1-3 collects the first three installments—Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus’s Run, and Atet A.D.—of Nathaniel Mackey’s genre-defying work of fiction. A project that began over thirty years ago, From a Broken Bottle is an epistolary novel that unfolds through N.’s intricate letters to the mysterious Angel of Dust. Unexpected, profound happenings take place as N. delves into music and art and the goings-on of his transmorphic Los Angeles-based jazz ensemble, in which he is a composer and instrumentalist. This triple-set book opens in July 1978 with a dream of a haunting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811218443
SKU
V9780811218443
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About Nathaniel Mackey
Nathaniel Mackey was born in Miami, Florida in 1947. He is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, and has received many awards for his work, including the National Book Award in poetry for Splay Anthem, the Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society, and the Bollingen Prize from the Beinecke Library at ... Read more
Reviews for From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus´s Run, Atet A.D.
"In Nathaniel Mackey’s world, everything from a guitar strum to a needle scratch becomes an open-ended exegesis of musical meaning that is equal parts African American history, Bedouin mysticism, and Mackey’s own imagination. Though this world resembles the everyday world most of us live in, the normal constraints don’t hold Mackey or his characters down…. You aren’t likely to forget ... Read more