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Trading Twelves
Ralph Ellison
其他書名
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
出版Modern Library, 2000
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresFiction / LiteraryLiterary Criticism & Collections / Letters
ISBN03755036769780375503672
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kjghAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A joyous and important collection of letters between two great American writers and old friends, baring their hearts to each other about life, work, and the American scene.
When two jazz musicians trade twelves with each other in a jam session, one musician begins by riffing off twelve bars of music, the other musician throws the twelve bars back through his instrument, the first answers, and so on, back and forth, in an ecstatic exchange of ideas and emotions. So it is with these letters, joyful music created by the exchanges between two dear friends. Reading these letters, you sense that each man was the other's lifeline, that the emotional and intellectual companionship they found in each other was unique in their lives. They spill it all out here--their struggles, frustrations, ambitions, fears; thoughts on literary gossip, jazz, photography--and the result is literary history, and a book that reminds you what friendship is all about.