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The Celestial Jukebox
Cynthia Shearer
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Description for The Celestial Jukebox
Paperback. Set in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar, this book depicts a rural South dependent on agribusiness and the fruits of some less attractive forms of capitalism - gambling and other vices. It presents a novel which is filled with music, wisdom, and spontaneous joy. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
Set in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar, Cynthia Shearer's ""The Celestial Jukebox"" depicts a rural South dependent on agribusiness and the fruits of some less attractive forms of capitalism - gambling and other vices. Into this world comes Boubacar, a fifteen-year-old African boy joining friends from Mauritania already living in the area. They are new African blacks not especially noteworthy in a town filled with Chinese emigrants, African Americans within memory of slavery, and straggling members of the original white families of the area. Presiding over Madagascar is Angus, the second-generation Delta Chinese proprietor of the Celestial Grocery, ... Read more
Set in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar, Cynthia Shearer's ""The Celestial Jukebox"" depicts a rural South dependent on agribusiness and the fruits of some less attractive forms of capitalism - gambling and other vices. Into this world comes Boubacar, a fifteen-year-old African boy joining friends from Mauritania already living in the area. They are new African blacks not especially noteworthy in a town filled with Chinese emigrants, African Americans within memory of slavery, and straggling members of the original white families of the area. Presiding over Madagascar is Angus, the second-generation Delta Chinese proprietor of the Celestial Grocery, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820328386
SKU
V9780820328386
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About Cynthia Shearer
Cynthia Shearer is the former curator of Rowan Oak, the home of William Faulkner, and holds a doctorate in English from the University of Mississippi. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her first novel, The Wonder Book of the Air, received the 1996 prize for fiction from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and ... Read more
Reviews for The Celestial Jukebox
Shearer has created nothing less than a gem in this tale of intertwining destinies. - Booklist