This book is the first of three on the racism, the delusion, the love, the hatred, the violence, the hope, the meanness and generosity, the humanity and inhumanity, the range of love-hate viciousness and nobility that bind the black and the white people of the United States into the same nation. The second book will be gray and the third will be black, but this first is the white novel. It begins with a love story among the very young at a time when black Americans, eighty years after freedom, were still in bondage. Some say they are in bondage even now, but not like then.
This book is the first of three on the racism, the delusion, the love, the hatred, the violence, the hope, the meanness and generosity, the humanity a...
This story of Faustian bargains happened in Paris in the 1950s. Using any means necessary to get to the top with her talent, Kathleen Ingersoll reached the far edge of possibility as a classical pianist. With the higher music establishment in the background, her story is neither about music nor about Paris. It is about a woman and the cost of extreme ambition, about love and other dangers, and about time and the river.
Events on streets and in neighborhoods that were never in Paris are in this book the same way that Poe's murders happened in the Rue Morgue. Persons who existed...
This story of Faustian bargains happened in Paris in the 1950s. Using any means necessary to get to the top with her talent, Kathleen Ingersoll rea...
