The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers

The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers

The Time of Our Singing is a magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted--and divided--family, set against the backdrop of postwar America, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Richard Powers.

On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish migr scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and--against all odds and better judgment--they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the Civil Rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, whose voice could make heads of state repent, follows a life in his parents' beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both.

The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.

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ISBN 13	9780312422189
ISBN 10	0312422180
Title	The Time of Our Singing
Author	Richard Powers
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2004-01-01
Number of pages	640
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