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Original Title:	Time of Our Singing
ISBN:	0099453835 (ISBN13: 9780099453833)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.richardpowers.net/the-time-of-our-singing/
Literary Awards:	WH Smith Literary Award (2004), Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (2004), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee (2003)

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities. Jonah, Ruth and Joseph are the children of mixed-race parents determined to raise them beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. Yet they cannot be protected from the world forever. Even as Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, the opera arena remains fixated on his race. Ruth turns her back on classical music and disappears, dedicating herself to activism and a new relationship. As the years pass, Joseph – the middle child, a pianist and our narrator – must battle not just to remain connected to his siblings, but to forge a future of his own. This is a story of the tragedy of race in America, told through the lives and choices of one family caught on the cusp of identities. ‘An epic novel of modern America that weaves ideas of race, music and science into a mysterious but satisfying tapestry... Endlessly fascinating’ Independent

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Title	:	The Time of Our Singing
Author	:	Richard Powers
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 631 pages
Published	:	February 5th 2004 by Vintage (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Music. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction. Novels. Race. Contemporary

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Richard Powers Nobel Prize.Attention chief-work. A powerful novel which speaks about exile after the Nazism, racism, the walk of Martin Luther King, authentic interpretation of baroque musicIt is moving, powerful, a Master book splendid, extraordinary, brilliantEncore

I've had this book for a good few years now and I've never before been able to get into it. I've picked it up, read a few pages, put it down again and found something else. And now I wish I'd stayed with it, now I wish I'd read it years ago so I could have read it again and again by now, because...what a book. What a book.On a purely surface level it's about two mixed-race brothers born in the late 1940s, children to a German Jewish father and a black mother. But it's so much more than that.

The best contemporary fiction that Ive read this year.

This is undoubtedly a great work of art, a book that deserves all the superlatives that have been scattered here abundantly on this site, because this is a novel with a lot of meat on the bone. First of all it is a beautiful, at times even quite touching family saga (after 600 pages the Strom family members have become rather good acquaintances). This saga is handsomely fit into a specific time frame (the US between 1939 and 1993) and so it is also a Great American Novel (a little reminiscent of

Every once in a while you'll get into one of those conversations with an acquaintance who thinks he or she is smarter than you in which you list a string of books you've read recently and authors you particularly enjoy. Invariably Michael Chabon's last name (shay-bawn) is mispronounced in these conversations.If you want to win the next conversation like this you have, I highly recommend delving quickly and deeply into the urvruh of Richard Powers, who, despite never fully penetrating the upper

I had a hard time finishing this book, because the ending was so good that I couldn't stop crying. Not because it was sad, but because it was so unbelievably good, and because I'd never before read a long book with an ending that lived up to its heft.Seriously, it took me like half an hour to read the last few pages, because I kept flinging down the book and pacing around my apartment, sobbing hysterically.Don't get me wrong, this book is not perfect, and it definitely falters in places.

This book was just so good. Moving, fascinating, complex...manages to weave a compelling family story together with an eerily accurate picture of 20th century U.S. history and race relations. I found myself wishing that this book had been written just after Obama's election, so that Inauguration Day could factored into the framing device of huge, defining moments in Washington (would have preferred that to the Million Man March, which closes the novel). The characters felt real enough that I