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Cahokia Jazz
From the prizewinning author of Golden Hill βthe best book of the centuryβ Richard Osman
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See moreA thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill.
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill.
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A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently β from the bestselling author of Golden Hill.
In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper.
It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on β a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about.
But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week that will spill the city's secrets and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, either to destruction or rebirth.
The multiple-award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly created, richly pleasure-giving, epically scaled tale set in the golden age of wicked entertainments.
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Italic is praised as a brilliant and ambitious novel that combines historical fiction with a detective narrative. Readers appreciate the rich, evocative depiction of the 1920s, along with its unique exploration of politics and society. The bookβs intricate plot and vivid characterisation have been noted positively, engaging readers with its clever twists and immersive world-building.
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ISBN: 9780571336876
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 05 October 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 35.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 733g
Pages: 496
About the Author
Francis Spufford is the author of five highly-praised works of non-fiction, most frequently described by reviewers as either 'bizarre' or 'brilliant', and usually as both. His debut novel Golden Hill won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year. His second novel, Light Perpetual, was awarded the 2022 Encore Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and lives near Cambridge.
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