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    The Fisher King
    The Fisher King
    The Fisher King
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Fisher King

    Written by Paule Marshall

    Narrated by Robin Miles

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    About this audiobook

    In 1949, jazz pianist Sonny-Rhett Payne left New York for Paris, to be free from racism and his family's disapproval. Now Sonny's grandson has come to New York for a memorial concert. There, the 8-year-old begins to understand the forces that drove Sonny into exile. Paule Marshall is an award-winning author and distinguished professor of creative writing at New York University.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 29, 2011
    ISBN9781461811305
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    • 5/5
      Paule Marshall does an excellent job dealing with several themes, issues and obstacles in life facing families.She starts out slowly, setting up the situation and the characters, such as the great grandmothers - Florence Varina, the "high-yellow" southerner, and Ulene Payne, a demented and bitter West Indian. But, once the story established itself and the storyline picked up, I got into the novel around page 88. I liked the flow of the dialogue and the surprise twist ending that brought the novel to an ambiguous but to me, a satisfying close.