Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Albert.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American teenage boys--Fiction.

African American teenage boys.

African American musicians--Fiction.

African American musicians.

Coming of age--Fiction.

African American fiction--20th century.

Twenties (20th century)--Fiction.

Small town life--Alabama--Fiction.

Scooter (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Alabama--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Musical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

183 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First Vintage International edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage International, 1998.

Summary:

From one of our national treasures (inducted last year into the American Academy of Arts and Letters), Train Whistle Guitar is a deceptively gentle coming-of-age novel, the first in the acclaimed trilogy that includes The Spyglass Tree and The Seven League Boots.

Set in Gasoline Point, Alabama, in the 1920s, Scooter learns everything he needs to know in Miss Lexine Metcalf's classroom and Papa Gumbo Willie McWorthy's barbershop -- and everything he's not supposed to know from ready, older girls. But, most of all, Scooter learns from the train hopping musician Luzana Cholly, who plays guitar "as if he were also an engineer telling tall tales on a train whistle". Poignant, exhilarating, and exultantly musical, Train Whistle Guitar is a masterpiece of American literature.

Notes:

"Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc."

"First Vintage International Edition, December 1998."

"... gentle coming of age novel, the first in the acclaimed trilogy that includes 'The Spyglass Tree' and 'The Seven League Boots'."

ISBN:

0375703365

9780375703362

OCLC:

38966019