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Late Arcade, EPUB eBook

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Nathaniel Mackey's Late Arcade opens in Los Angeles.

A musician known only as N. writes the first of a series of letters to the enigmatic Angel of Dust.

N.'s jazz sextet, Molimo m'Atet, has just rehearsed a new tune: the horn players read from The Egyptian Book of the Dead with lips clothespinned shut, while the rest of the band struts and saunters in a cosmic hymn to the sun god Ra.

N. ends this breathless session by sending the Angel of Dust a cassette tape of their rehearsal.Over the next nine months, N.'s epistolary narration follows the musical goings-on of the ensemble.

N. suffers from what he calls "cowrie shell at- tacks"-oil spills, N.'s memory of his mother's melancholy musical Sundays- which all becomes the source of fresh artistic invention.Here is the newest installment of the National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, the great American jazz novel of "exquisite rhythmic lyricism" (Bookforum).

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