Xan Brooks

The Catchers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Spring 1927. The birth of popular music. John Coughlin is a song-catcher from New York who has been sent to Appalachia to source and record the local hill-country musicians. His assignment leads him to small-town Tennessee where he oversees the recording session that will establish his reputation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Salt
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784633219
• Artikelnr.: 71480078

Autorenporträt

Xan Brooks is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He was one of the founding editorial team at the Big Issue magazine in London and spent 15-years as a writer and associate editor at the Guardian newspaper. His debut novel, The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times, was listed for the Costa First Novel Award, the Author's Club Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

Rezensionen

Books of the Month ____ Brooks's novel is hugely atmospheric, neatly capturing an era when it feels like "everything is accelerating", and it brings to life a world of hustlers looking for the gold rush of a hit song in captivating style. The story is full of vivid, shocking characters - The Troller, Colonel Bird, the feral Grady Boys - and memorable descriptions ("straight-backed old women with windfall apple faces". The pulsating plot rattles along, rather like Coughlin's old automobile, but this is also a tale with potent and disturbing things to say about profiteering and the racism that blights America.
Martin Chilton Independent

Books of the Month ____ Brooks's novel is hugely atmospheric, neatly capturing an era when it feels like "everything is accelerating", and it brings to life a world of hustlers looking for the gold rush of a hit song in captivating style. The story is full of vivid, shocking characters - The Troller, Colonel Bird, the feral Grady Boys - and memorable descriptions ("straight-backed old women with windfall apple faces". The pulsating plot rattles along, rather like Coughlin's old automobile, but this is also a tale with potent and disturbing things to say about profiteering and the racism that blights America.

Martin Chilton Independent