Oscar
(Sprache: Englisch)
A magical realist take on the life of legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, the immigrant experience, and the alchemy of music in 1950s.
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A magical realist take on the life of legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, the immigrant experience, and the alchemy of music in 1950s.
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Brad succumbs to the white plague, Oscar too spends his days fighting disease, confined to a hospital. Playing the organ at night for a mysterious sickly girl, he discovers his own talent, although years after recovery, he finds himself desperate, poor, and depressed-until the devil, otherwise known to the world as impresario Norman G, happens on him in a moment of crisis.Inspired by the life of legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, Mauricio Segura's Oscar evokes periods across time, from the Depression-era Montreal neighbourhood of Little Burgundy to the swinging cabarets of the 1950s, while offering a reflection on the bonds between an artist and the Caribbean diaspora from which he comes. But above all, Oscar is a poignant homage to a musical giant, a man who changed the face of jazz forever.
Autoren-Porträt von Marcicio Segura
Born in Chile, Mauricio Segura grew up in Montreal and studied at Université de Montréal and McGill University. He is a well-known journalist, scriptwriter, and documentary filmmaker. An editor of the literary journal L'Inconvénient and a regular contributor to the Montreal public affairs magazine L'Actualité, he has taught at Concordia University, McGill University, and Université de Montréal.Segura is the author of four novels and a study of Western depictions of Latin America. His novels Black Alley and Eucalyptus were published in English by Biblioasis. Black Alley is widely studied in Quebec's junior college system. Eucalyptus was named one of Amazon's 100 best books of 2013. The Montreal newspaper La Presse chose Oscar as one of the 40 best books of 2016.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Marcicio Segura
- 2018, 172 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzung: Winkler, Donald
- Verlag: Biblioasis
- ISBN-10: 1771962259
- ISBN-13: 9781771962254
Sprache:
Englisch
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