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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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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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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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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

This completely wonderful novel was the fifth I have read in my 2019 challenge to read all the Richard Powers novels in reverse order of publication. It is as great in its own way as The Overstory and Orfeo. I have complained in years gone by when white authors try to tell us about African Americans. Some authors also have trouble writing characters who are of the opposite sex, but a great writer can seem to inhabit the humanity of anyone and Richard Powers is one of those. Delia, a young Black

I had a mixed reaction to this book. It engaged me and I loved the use of music in the story and, as a singer, the descriptions of singing and music. But there were definitely sections where I thought the author was forcing his characters in a particular direction, rather than allowing them to run the story. The discussions of time and the intercutting of different time periods within the story was not entirely successful. In the end, it felt like a white person's book about race. I'd be curious

Musical ImmersionI have participated in classical music as an amateur my entire life, and worked professionally in the field for four decades; they are different experiences. Up to now, the novel that most completely captured both the love-affair of the amateur and the exacting discipline of the performer has been An Equal Music by Vikram Seth, set in the world of chamber music. But this 2003 novel by Richard Powers eclipses even that beacon. Beginning with the astounding competition win by a

To give up on a book after 200 of 600 pages is the most interesting thing I can say about this book. To me it became tedious in the extreme. It is repetitive, dull and all round full of unreal people living in an unreal world.

Reasons you might not want to read this book: (1) It's very long - 636 dense pages. (2) It skips back and forth through time. I didn't find it at all hard to follow, but some readers object to the technique. By purest chance, I read this right after finishing _The Butler_. Both books look at the second half (or a bit more) of the 20th century from the POV of an American black family. All I knew about _Singing_ was that a friend who shares my taste in books liked it very much. _Singing is vastly

Throughly enjoyed this. It's a powerful compelling story that combines the complexities of race and family and the beauty and power of music and physics. It is densely written, immersing the reader almost to the point of exhaustion, but beautifully and brilliantly so.