A Love Supreme: A Novel

Kent Nussey (Author); Alexander Scala (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1894469119 / ISBN 13: 9781894469111

Published by The Mansfield Press, Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, 2003

About this Item

207 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and attached dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and attached dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Relevant newspaper article or clipping included from previous owner.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Love Supreme: A Novel
• Publisher: The Mansfield Press, Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1894469119
• ISBN 13: 9781894469111
• Binding: Soft Cover with Attached Dust
• Illustrator: Tim Hanna (Cover & Text Design); Nonstock, 2003 (Cover Photo; Courtesy of); Barry Munger (Author Photo)
• Edition: Copyright © 2003
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New

About this title

Synopsis

Omar Snow is a struggling musicologist trying to finish a book of jazz biographies about Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. When he reaches the Coltrane section strange things start happening around him and to him. Coltrane's music, or some other new urgency in Omar's life, triggers a series of ecstatic visions that lead him down a path he never dreamed existed. A Love Supreme is a peculiarly charged disquisition on the relation between music, solitude, and romanticism. It not only remarks poignantly on where our culture has most recently been, but likewise hints at a new sensibility that may yet become the hallmark of the new century.

About the Author

Kent Nussey is the critically acclaimed author of two previous collections of short fiction, In Christ there is No East or West and The War in Heaven. He has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and his fiction and essays have been published in literary journals and magazines across North America. He lives and writes in Toronto, Ontario.