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What is Late Arcade about?

Nathaniel Mackey’s *Late Arcade* opens in Los Angeles. A musician known only as N. writes the first of a series of letters to the enigmatic Angel of Dust. N.’s jazz sextet, Molimo m’Atet, has just rehearsed a new tune: the horn players read from *The Egyptian Book of the Dead* with lips clothespinned shut, while the rest of the band struts and saunters in a cosmic hymn to the sun god Ra. N. ends this breathless session by sending the Angel of Dust a cassette tape of their rehearsal.Over the next nine months, N.’s epistolary narration follows the musical goings-on of the ensemble. N. suffers from what he calls “cowrie shell at- tacks”—oil spills, N.’s memory of his mother’s melancholy musical Sundays— which all becomes the source of fresh artistic invention.Here is the newest installment of the National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Mackey’s *From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate*, the great American jazz novel of “exquisite rhythmic lyricism” (*Bookforum*).words : 66407

Author

MacKey, Nathaniel

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811226615