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The twentieth century, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., wrote in a 1996 profile, is Albert Murrays century; we just live in it. Few writers have penetrated as deeply into the complexities of race and culture in America as did Murray in such indispensable books as The Omni-Americans and Stomping the Blues . But his literary lan, wit, and sense of exhilarating play found its fullest expression in his novels, a semi-autobiographical tetralogy published to great acclaim over some thirty years and here collected for the first time in a single volume. Deeply engaged with the modernist legacy of writers such as Faulkner and Joyce, and with the work of his great friend Ralph Ellison, Murrays four novels form a wise and rollicking memory book, mining his own history to fashion an indelible portrait of life in the Deep South in the 1920s and 30s and in prewar New York City. His narrator and protagonist, Scooter, is introduced in Train Whistle Guitar (1974), a novel about a boys upbringing in a blue-collar African American community in which he learns as much from musicians and wise elders as he does in school. Murray extends his tale of Scooters youthan education in books, music, and the bent-no

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Author

Albert Murray; Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Paul Devlin

Publisher

The Library of America : Literary Classics of the United States, Inc

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598535617

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14