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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670022977
ISBN-13
9780670022977
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127420078
Product Key Features
Book Title
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-019764
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Vivid and charming...Kennedy, now in his 80s, is in the embrace of nostalgia as he looks back on the adventures of his youth, and this gives the novel much of its not inconsiderable appeal... He is a fluid, engaging prose stylist, and frequently a witty one...Kennedy has maintained a high level of achievement throughout [his Albany Cycle], deftly blending comedy and drama as, over the years, he has painted a portrait of a single city perhaps unique in American fiction., Vivid and charming . . . Kennedy, now in his 80s, is in the embrace of nostalgia as he looks back on the adventures of his youth, and this gives the novel much of its not inconsiderable appeal . . . He is a fluid, engaging prose stylist, and frequently a witty one . . . Kennedy has maintained a high level of achievement throughout [his Albany Cycle], deftly blending comedy and drama as, over the years, he has painted a portrait of a single city perhaps unique in American fiction., "His most musical work of fiction: a polyrhythmic contemplation of time and its effects on passion set in three different eras...this is not a book a young man would or could write. There is the sense here of somebody who has seen and considered much, without letting his inner fire cool...the ambition and the ability to pull wildly diverse worlds together in a single story is rare. Kennedy, master of the Irish-American lament in works like Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and Ironweed , proves here he can play with both hands and improvise on a theme without losing the beat." -John Sayles, The New York Times Book Review (front page) "Written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called the best of the bunch... In Mr. Kennedy's Albany, as in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, the past is never past. Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes is invigorated by this same blending of new and old, of progress and recurrence...there's more shot and incidence in Changó than in any novel of Mr. Kennedy's since Legs...the style here has the sleekness and strength of good crime noir." -Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal "Vivid and charming...Kennedy, now in his 80s, is in the embrace of nostalgia as he looks back on the adventures of his youth, and this gives the novel much of its not inconsiderable appeal... He is a fluid, engaging prose stylist, and frequently a witty one...Kennedy has maintained a high level of achievement throughout [his Albany Cycle], deftly blending comedy and drama as, over the years, he has painted a portrait of a single city perhaps unique in American fiction." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post "Kennedy's humor is sly and wonderful...there's an almost deliriously rich cast of lowlifes here: gun runners, politicians on the make, street- corner agitators, prostitutes, winos...[Kennedy's] description of Hemingway...is well-nigh perfect." -Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe "Kennedy's prose hangs on every deft noir-ish turn, never succumbing to lazy pastiche. Best of all is his Castro, an impressively human rendering of the Commandante who falls halfway between Brando and Marcus Aurelius." -J.W. McCormack, Bookforum "Kennedy's journalistic training is manifest in a clear, sure voice that swiftly guides the reader though a rich, multilayered, refreshingly old- school narrative. Thick with backroom deal making and sharp commentary on corruption, Kennedy's novel describes a world he clearly knows, and through plenty of action, careful historical detail, and larger-than-life characters, he brilliantly brings it to life." - Publishers Weekly "A jazzy, seductive, historically anchored novel of politics and romance, race and revolution...Music, rapid-fire dialogue, lyrical outrage, epic malfeasance, trampled idealism, and a bit of autobiography drive Kennedy's incandescent and enrapturing tale of the heroic and bloody quest for justice and equality and the gamble of love." - Booklist, Written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called the best of the bunch . . . In Mr. Kennedy's Albany, as in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, the past is never past. Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes is invigorated by this same blending of new and old, of progress and recurrence . . . there's more shot and incidence in Changó than in any novel of Mr. Kennedy's since Legs . . . the style here has the sleekness and strength of good crime noir., Kennedy's humor is sly and wonderful . . . there's an almost deliriously rich cast of lowlifes here: gun runners, politicians on the make, street- corner agitators, prostitutes, winos . . . Kennedy's] description of Hemingway . . . is well-nigh perfect., "Vivid and charming...Kennedy, now in his 80s, is in the embrace of nostalgia as he looks back on the adventures of his youth, and this gives the novel much of its not inconsiderable appeal... He is a fluid, engaging prose stylist, and frequently a witty one...Kennedy has maintained a high level of achievement throughout [his Albany Cycle], deftly blending comedy and drama as, over the years, he has painted a portrait of a single city perhaps unique in American fiction." Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post, Written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called the best of the bunch . . . In Mr. Kennedy's Albany, as in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, the past is never past. Chang's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes is invigorated by this same blending of new and old, of progress and recurrence . . . there's more shot and incidence in Chang than in any novel of Mr. Kennedy's since Legs . . . the style here has the sleekness and strength of good crime noir., "His most musical work of fiction: a polyrhythmic contemplation of time and its effects on passion set in three different eras...this is not a book a young man would or could write. There is the sense here of somebody who has seen and considered much, without letting his inner fire cool...the ambition and the ability to pull wildly diverse worlds together in a single story is rare. Kennedy, master of the Irish-American lament in works like Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and Ironweed , proves here he can play with both hands and improvise on a theme without losing the beat." John Sayles, The New York Times Book Review (front page), His most musical work of fiction: a polyrhythmic contemplation of time and its effects on passion set in three different eras...this is not a book a young man would or could write. There is the sense here of somebody who has seen and considered much, without letting his inner fire cool...the ambition and the ability to pull wildly diverse worlds together in a single story is rare. Kennedy, master of the Irish-American lament in works like Billy Phelan''s Greatest Game and Ironweed , proves here he can play with both hands and improvise on a theme without losing the beat., "Kennedy's humor is sly and wonderful...there's an almost deliriously rich cast of lowlifes here: gun runners, politicians on the make, street- corner agitators, prostitutes, winos...[Kennedy's] description of Hemingway...is well-nigh perfect." Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe, "Written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called the best of the bunch... In Mr. Kennedy's Albany, as in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, the past is never past. Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes is invigorated by this same blending of new and old, of progress and recurrence...there's more shot and incidence in Changó than in any novel of Mr. Kennedy's since Legs...the style here has the sleekness and strength of good crime noir." Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal, His most musical work of fiction: a polyrhythmic contemplation of time and its effects on passion set in three different eras . . . this is not a book a young man would or could write. There is the sense here of somebody who has seen and considered much, without letting his inner fire cool . . . the ambition and the ability to pull wildly diverse worlds together in a single story is rare. Kennedy, master of the Irish-American lament in works like Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and Ironweed , proves here he can play with both hands and improvise on a theme without losing the beat., Written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called the best of the bunch... In Mr. Kennedy''s Albany, as in William Faulkner''s Yoknapatawpha County, the past is never past. Changó''s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes is invigorated by this same blending of new and old, of progress and recurrence...there''s more shot and incidence in Changó than in any novel of Mr. Kennedy''s since Legs...the style here has the sleekness and strength of good crime noir., Kennedy''s humor is sly and wonderful...there''s an almost deliriously rich cast of lowlifes here: gun runners, politicians on the make, street- corner agitators, prostitutes, winos...[Kennedy''s] description of Hemingway...is well-nigh perfect.
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed , a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers. When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins William Kennedy's latest novel-a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro. Quinn's epic journey carries him through the nightclubs and jungles of Cuba and into the newsrooms and racially charged streets of Albany on the day Robert Kennedy is fatally shot in 1968. The odyssey brings Quinn, and his exotic but unpredictable Cuban wife, Renata, a debutante revolutionary, face-to-face with the darkest facets of human nature and illuminates the power of love in the presence of death. Kennedy masterfully gathers together an unlikely cast of vivid characters in a breathtaking adventure full of music, mysticism, and murder-a homeless black alcoholic, a radical Catholic priest, a senile parent, a terminally ill jazz legend, the imperious mayor of Albany, Bing Crosby, Hemingway, Castro, and a ragtag ensemble of radicals, prostitutes, provocateurs, and underworld heavies. This is an unforgettably riotous story of revolution, romance, and redemption, set against the landscape of the civil rights movement as it challenges the legendary and vengeful Albany political machine.
LC Classification Number
PS3561.E428C47 2011
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