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"The power of music in its relation to a racially divided family and culture is dramatized with unprecedented brilliance in this panoramic novel....Powers's impassioned criticisms of racism are often jarringly strident....But such awkwardness is subsumed in this rich novel's verbal agility, depth of characterization, historical and social range, and propulsive readability.Richard Powers is the author of 'The Time of Our Singing: A Novel', published 2004 under ISBN 9780312422189 and ISBN 0312422180.
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