| International Standard Book Number |
9781668025475 (electronic book)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668025451 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668025450 (hardcover)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
823/.92 23/eng/20230605
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| Personal Name |
Spufford, Francis, 1964- author.
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| Title Statement |
Cahokia jazz : a novel / Francis Spufford.
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| Edition Statement |
First Scribner hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2023
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Scribner, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
436 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| General Note |
Includes family tree following page 436.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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.
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| Subject |
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Indians of North America Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Fiction. Investigation
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Homicide Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nineteen twenties Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Meurtre Romans, nouvelles, etc. Enquãetes
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Annâees vingt (Vingtiáeme siáecle) Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jazz music Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Illinois Fiction. History 20th century
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Illinois Romans, nouvelles, etc. Histoire 20e siáecle
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Cahokia (Ill.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Alternative histories (Fiction) lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romans. rvmgf
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Online version: Spufford, Francis, 1964- First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2024 Cahokia jazz : a novel (DLC) 2023025378 9781668025475
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