The time of our singing /

The time of our singing

Richard Powers
Book - 2022

The book follows the mixed-race Strom family through much of the 20th century, from 1939 when German-Jewish physicist David Strom meets Delia Daley, a black, classically trained singer from Philadelphia through the 1990s. The couple marries and has three children: eldest son Jonah, a charismatic, egotistical singing prodigy; Joseph, his self-sacrificing accompanist; and Ruth, the rebel of the family, who becomes a militant black activist. There are two separate strands to the story: one is a third-person chronicle of David and Delia's relationship through the 1940s; the other, narrated by Joseph, is about the brothers' education in the nearly all-white world of classical music and their experience of the civil rights movement as the rest of the country grudgingly catches up to the Stroms' radical experiment.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Powers, Richard, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Picador, 2022.
Edition:Picador reissue ed.
Subjects:
African American women singers > Fiction.
Parent and adult child > Fiction.
Racially mixed people > Fiction.
Interracial marriage > Fiction.
Interfaith marriage > Fiction.
Immigrants > Fiction.
Jewish men > Fiction.
Scientists > Fiction.
Singers > Fiction.
Fiction.

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