Collected novels & poems : Train whistle guitar ; The spyglass tree ; The seven league boots ; The magic keys ; Poems / Albert Murray ; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Paul Devlin, editors.

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Collected novels and poems

9781598535617 (hardcover)
1598535617 (hardcover)

New York, New York : Library of America : Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., [2018]

English

977 pages : maps ; 21 cm.

PS3563.U764 A6 2018

813/.54

"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.
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.
The spyglass tree: The growing up days of Scooter from boyhood to manhood into college.
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.
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.

Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 940-977).

Library of America ; 304.

Container of (work): Murray, Albert. Train whistle guitar.
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