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No Matter How Much You Promise: To Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again, a Symphonic Novel

by Edgardo Vega Yunque

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This sweeping drama of intimately connected families--black, white, and Latino--boldly conjures up the ever-shifting cultural mosaic that is America. At its heart is Vidamía Farrell, half Puerto Rican, half Irish, who sets out in search of the father she has never known. Her journey takes her from her affluent suburban home to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where her father Billy Farrell now lives with his second family. Once a gifted jazz pianist, Billy lost two fingers in the Vietnam War and has since shut himself off from jazz. As Billy's colorful new family draws her into their fold, so Vidamia determines to draw her father back into the world he left behind.

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This sweeping drama of intimately connected families--black, white, and Latino--boldly conjures up the ever-shifting cultural mosaic of America. At its heart is Vidamia Farrell, half Puerto Rican, half Irish, who sets out in search of the father she has never known.

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Edgardo Vega Yunque, author of The Comeback, Mendoza's Dreams, and Casualty Report, was born in Puerto Rico and lives in Brooklyn. His stories have been adapted for the stage and anthologized internationally.

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malice32, January 22, 2010 (view all comments by malice32)
I wish more people were aware of the work of Edgardo Vega Yunque. This is one of the most compelling books I've read--epic, sweeping, lyrical, timely, and funny as heck! Vega Yunque creates a world that is familiar to all of us, even those of us who don't live in New York. Questions of race and identity are still important to ask, and may be more important to ask as we enter what some consider to be a "post-racial" world. Vega Yunque's characters ask those questions and the answers they come up with often surprise, delight, and frustrate the reader. This is a huge book but so worth the read!
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ISBN:
9780312424022
Subtitle:
to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again; A Symphonic Novel
Author:
Yunque, Edgardo Vega
Author:
Vega Yunque, Edgardo
Publisher:
Picador
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Jazz musicians
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
General Fiction
Publication Date:
20040901
Binding:
TP
Language:
English
Pages:
816
Dimensions:
8.24x5.60x1.54 in. 1.57 lbs.

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