TY  - BOOK
N2  - "Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.
N2  - Train whistle guitar: His schoolteacher, the barber, older girls, and a train-hopping musician teach Scooter just about all he needs to know in Gasoline Point, Alabama, during the 1920s.
N2  - The spyglass tree: The growing up days of Scooter from boyhood to manhood into college.
N2  - The seven league boots: Scooter, aka Schoolboy, a bass player so named because he has a college degree, plucks and bows his way across the country with a famous jazz band, and onto Europe.
N2  - The magic keys: Growing up brilliant and curious in Alabama, Scooter was told he was destined for greatness. Now newly married and a graduate student in humanities at New York University, he goes about discovering just what he is destined to be great at. Anchored by Eunice, his "Mrs. Me," Scooter makes the rounds of Manhattan's libraries, jazz hangouts, galleries, skyscrapers, and endlessly fascinating streets, meeting the people who will help him find his way.
AB  - "Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.
AB  - Train whistle guitar: His schoolteacher, the barber, older girls, and a train-hopping musician teach Scooter just about all he needs to know in Gasoline Point, Alabama, during the 1920s.
AB  - The spyglass tree: The growing up days of Scooter from boyhood to manhood into college.
AB  - The seven league boots: Scooter, aka Schoolboy, a bass player so named because he has a college degree, plucks and bows his way across the country with a famous jazz band, and onto Europe.
AB  - The magic keys: Growing up brilliant and curious in Alabama, Scooter was told he was destined for greatness. Now newly married and a graduate student in humanities at New York University, he goes about discovering just what he is destined to be great at. Anchored by Eunice, his "Mrs. Me," Scooter makes the rounds of Manhattan's libraries, jazz hangouts, galleries, skyscrapers, and endlessly fascinating streets, meeting the people who will help him find his way.
T1  - Collected novels & poems :Train whistle guitar ; The spyglass tree ; The seven league boots ; The magic keys ; Poems /
AU  - Murray, Albert,
AU  - Gates, Henry Louis,
AU  - Devlin, Paul,
AU  - Murray, Albert.
AU  - Murray, Albert.
AU  - Murray, Albert.
AU  - Murray, Albert.
AU  - Murray, Albert.
VL  - 304
CN  - PS3563.U764
CN  - PS3563.U764
N1  - Map on endpapers.
ID  - 852320
KW  - African American teenage boys
KW  - African American musicians
KW  - Jazz musicians
KW  - American literature
KW  - American fiction
KW  - American poetry
KW  - American poetry
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Musical fiction.
SN  - 9781598535617
SN  - 1598535617
TI  - Collected novels & poems :Train whistle guitar ; The spyglass tree ; The seven league boots ; The magic keys ; Poems /
ER  -