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Joplin's Ghost
Tananarive Due
ISBN: 0743449037
Format: Hardcover, 496pp
Pub. Date: September 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
BBP Sales Rank: 21,772
List Price: $25.00
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Joplin's Ghost, Tananarive Due,
0743449037
FROM THE PUBLISHER
From the award-winning writer of The
Good House, The Living Blood, and more, Joplin's Ghost is a chilling tale of a
star-in-the-making whose life goes haywire as she is haunted by the ghost of a
long-dead music legend.
When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when she
was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano. Now twenty-four, Phoenix is
launching a career as an R & B singer. She's living the life young artists envy
and seems destined for fame and fortune. But a chance visit to a historical
site in St. Louis ignites a series of bizarre, erotic encounters with a spirit
who may be the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin.
The music of Scott Joplin is strange enough to the ears of the hip-hop
generation, but the idea that these antique sounds are being channeled by the
protegee of rap superstar G-Ronn is nothing short of ludicrous.
With growing violence in G-Ronn's inner circle and a ghost bent on living
forever through her, Phoenix's life suddenly hangs in the balance," writes
Tananarive Due. Can the power of her own inner song and the love of a music
writer who believes in her give Phoenix the strength to fight to live out her
own future? Or will she be trapped forever in Scott Joplin's doomed, tragic
past?
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