Published by Picador, 2004
ISBN 10: 0312422180 ISBN 13: 9780312422189
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Published by Vintage Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099453835 ISBN 13: 9780099453833
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.
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Published by William Heinemann Ltd., 2003
ISBN 10: 043401060X ISBN 13: 9780434010608
Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Published by Penguin Random House, 2003
ISBN 10: 0434010626 ISBN 13: 9780434010622
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Picador Paper, 2022
ISBN 10: 1250829674 ISBN 13: 9781250829672
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Published by Picador, 2004
ISBN 10: 0312422180 ISBN 13: 9780312422189
Seller: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
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Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Picador, 2004. first printing. 8vo. Fine trade paperback, uncreased spine.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003
ISBN 10: 0374277826 ISBN 13: 9780374277826
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Published by Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005
ISBN 10: 3596159717 ISBN 13: 9783596159710
Seller: BOUQUINIST, München, BY, Germany
First Edition
Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Condition: Gut. 3. Auflage. 764 (4) Seiten. 19 cm. Umschlaggestaltung: Gundula Hißmann und Andreas Heilmann. Lesetipp des Bouquinisten! Guter Zustand. Leichter Wasserschaden am Buchfuß. Kein Geruch, aber einige Seiten sind minimal gewellt uns der Seitenschnitt ist fleckig. Marian Anderson war eine der eindruckvollsten Sängerinnen ihrer Zeit. In den 30er-Jahren wurde die amerikanische Künstlerin in vielen europäischen Konzertsälen gefeiert, Dirigenten und Komponisten wie Sibelius oder Toscanini priesen ihre Stimme als Jahrhundertbegabung. In ihrer Heimat jedoch war die Bewunderung nicht so einhellig, denn Marian Anderson war schwarz. Als man ihr 1939 den Auftritt in einer der besten Konzerthallen Washingtons, der Constitution Hall, versagte, intervenierte Amerikas First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Mit ihrer Unterstützung arrangierte man ein Freiluftkonzert der Sängerin vor dem Lincoln Memorial, das von 75.000 Zuschauern besucht wurde -- ein Ereignis von hohem symbolischem Wert, das allerdings wenig am bestehenden Rassismus des weißen gegenüber dem schwarzen Amerika änderte. In Richard Powers grandiosem Roman Der Klang der Zeit ist das legendäre Konzert eine wichtige Schlüsselszene. Nicht nur treffen sich hier die Eltern der Hauptfiguren zum ersten Mal und finden über ihre Liebe zur Musik zueinander, der Gegensatz zwischen trennendem Rassismus und versöhnender Kunst, unter der Marian Anderson zu leiden hatte, wirft von Beginn an auch einen bedrohlichen Schatten auf die Beziehung zwischen dem deutsch-jüdischen Emigranten David Strom und der Afroamerikanerin Delia Daley. Auch wenn David und Delia alles tun, um ihre drei Kinder vor dieser Bedrohung zu schützen, erweist sich die destruktive Kraft rassistischer Vorurteile letztlich stärker als die Kraft der Musik, aus unterschiedlichen Stimmen harmonische Kompositionen zu formen. Am Ende zerbricht die Familie und die Musik, die durch die Geschichte weht, wird zum Abgesang auf eine Utopie: die Überwindung des Rassismus durch den Einklang von Schwarz und Weiß. Der Klang der Zeit ist selbst durch den Versuch bestimmt, aus Gegensätzen Harmonie zu erzeugen, wenn auch eine fragile. Der Roman verwebt die Geschichte der Musikerfamilie Strom mit der Entwicklung der amerikanischen Gesellschaft zwischen den 20er-Jahren und den Rassenunruhen im Los Angeles der 90er, zugleich aber verbindet der Roman auch die Denkwelten der Physik mit den Kunstwelten der Musik. Wie auch in seinen anderen Romanen, z.B. Schattenflucht und Galathea 2.2 betrachtet Powers Kunst und Wissenschaft nicht als Widersprüche, sondern als gegenseitig erhellende Versuche des Menschen, sich selbst und seine Welt zu verstehen und zu verändern. Die Melancholie des Abgesangs, die deutlich im Roman zu spüren ist, mag gerade darin liegen, dass weder Wissenschaft noch Kunst den Rassismus aus der Welt schaffen konnten. Das kann natürlich auch Powers nicht, und doch ist Der Klang der Zeit gerade deshalb ein sehr mutiges Buch, das ein Ideal zu verteidigen versucht, ohne die Realität leugnen zu wollen. --Peter Schneck. - Richard Powers ist einer der aufregendsten Romanciers der Gegenwart. In großangelegten Gesellschafts- und Familienpanoramen verknüpft er unsere Gefühle und Erfahrungen mit unserer Zeit und ihrem Wissen. Er arbeitete als Programmierer, als er seinen ersten Roman nach einer Fotografie von August Sander schrieb: "Drei Bauern auf dem Weg zum Tanz". Seither entstand ein großes Werk, darunter auch die Reportage "Das Buch Ich # 9", die schildert, was es bedeutet, der neunte Mensch auf der Erde zu sein, dessen Genom vollständig entschlüsselt ist. 2007 ausgezeichnet mit dem National Book Critics Circle Award. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 593.
Published by Picador, 2004
ISBN 10: 0965753832 ISBN 13: 9780965753838
Trade Paperbac. Condition: Used: Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES : GOOD TRADE PAPERBACK, NAME WRITTEN ON FRONT FREE END PAPER, SOME MINOR NICKS AND CREASES, CLEAN PAGES, PROMPT SHIPPING WITH TRACKING.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2003
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Advance Reading Copy. Illustrated wrappers. Creasing and toning thus very good.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2003
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Softcover. Advance reading copy of this novel from the author of "The Gold Bug Variations." A clean very near fine copy in illustrated wrappers. An unread copy.
Published by vintage
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Published by Heinemann, London, 2003
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. The advance reading copy of the first British edition. Fine in wrappers, then wrapped in a flapless (by design) dust jacket of notably different design than the advance reading copy itself, and obscuring the faint praise that Powers is "the greatest author you've never heard of." Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Published by FARRAR STRAUS & * GIROUX, 2003
ISBN 10: 0374704635 ISBN 13: 9780374704636
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.74.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 0374277826 ISBN 13: 9780374277826
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Advance Reading Copy. Illustrated wrappers. Fine with publisher's material laid in.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, 2003
ISBN 10: 0374277826 ISBN 13: 9780374277826
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. First edition, first printing (full number line). Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over yellow boards, gilt lettering on spine. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and--against all odds and better judgment--they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. But their three children must survive America's brutal here and now. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up during the Civil Rights era, come of age in the violent 1960s, and live out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, "whose voice could make heads of state repent," follows a life in his parents' beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, chooses a militant activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generational tale, struggles to remain connected to them both. THE TIME OF OUR SINGING is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket ($27.00), has a large closed tear on the rear panel but is now in Mylar, else fine. FINE/GOOD. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 640 pp.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the US edition. 8vo. 631pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Some toning to the leaf margins. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, fractionally dust soiled, with series of small creases to the edge of the front panel, and a tiny hint of edgewear. Winner of the Ambassador Book Award for fiction and the W.H.Smith Literary Award.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 0374277826 ISBN 13: 9780374277826
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. 631 p. 25 cm. Quarter black cloth with cream paper boards. Mylar-covered dustjacket. A little shelf dust on lower edge.
Published by London: William Heinemann, 2003
ISBN 10: 0434884162 ISBN 13: 9780434884162
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Powers, Richard. The time of our singing. Uncorrected bound proofs. London: William Heinemann, 2003. Paperback, VG. Covers have minor shelfwear to edges; publication date and other proof details on back cover. Binding strong and tight. 636pp. A few small marks on edge of text block. Contents clean and bright. "There is no other contemporary American writer quite like Richard Powers. He is, as Sir Cliff Richard once said of Elvis, "a phenomena". The Time of Our Singing is his eighth novel since the boy-genius published Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance in 1985, and, just into his mid-40s, he is a long way from "dropping the feather", as they say. Powers is the best example of an American novelist who straddles CP Snow's "two cultures": a trained musician who began a degree in physics and then switched to literature, who programmed computers while writing his first novel, Powers is at home in the arts and the sciences, and takes the divide between them both as the subject matter and the structural principle of his fiction. There is barely a page where the reader is not brought up by a startling image or a carefully worked idea. You would have to go back to Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus to find the experience of playing and listening to music so beautifully caught in words. Others may give us more complex characters, but it is rare to find a novel as intellectually and emotionally engaging as this" (The Guardian). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Published by William Heinemann, London,UK, 2008
ISBN 10: 043401060X ISBN 13: 9780434010608
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. This true first edition, first printing (first impression) with a full numberline beginning with [1] to the copyright page indicating a true first print in a near fine Dust Jacket which is not price clipped, light toning to the text block. SIGNED by Richard Powers via a signed laid in Bewilderment" bookplate. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Heinemann (2003), London, 2003
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First U K edition. 631p octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Powers on a "Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series" bookplate dated Oct 15, 2007 where Powers was invited.