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Author:

Powers, Richard, 1957-

Title:

The time of our singing / Richard Powers.

Edition:

Picador reissue ed.

Publisher:

Picador,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

631 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

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.
African American women singers.
Immigrants.
Interfaith marriage.
Interracial marriage.
Jewish men.
Parent and adult child.
Racially mixed people.
Scientists.
Singers.
Musical fiction.
Fictional Work
Domestic fiction.
Musical fiction.
Fiction.
Fiction.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1250829674
9781250829672

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1310856980

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)