Cahokia jazz
Spufford, Francis, 1964-2024
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In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on - a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week that will spill the city's secrets, and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, either to destruction or rebirth.
Main title:
Cahokia jazz / Francis Spufford.
Author:
Spufford, Francis, 1964-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber, 2024.
Collation:
482 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.
ISBN:
9780571336883 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FFICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
3760666