Cahokia jazz : a novel / Francis Spufford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spufford, Francis, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Fiction.

Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Indians of North America--Fiction.

Indians of North America.

Cahokia (Ill.)--Fiction.

Cahokia (Ill.).

Illinois--History--20th century--Fiction.

Illinois.

Genre:

Novels

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Detective and mystery fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

436 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Scribner, 2024.

Summary:

"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. Down below, streetcar bells ring, factory whistles blow, Americans drink in speakeasies and dance to the tempo of modern times. But this is Cahokia, the ancient indigenous city beside the Mississippi living on as a teeming industrial metropolis containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But the corpse on the roof will spark a week of drama in which this altered world will spill its secrets and be brought, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets, either to destruction or to rebirth"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes family tree following page 436.

Other Format:

Online version: Spufford, Francis, 1964- Cahokia jazz : a novel

ISBN:

9781668025451

1668025450

OCLC:

1384411771