The Fisher King (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Paule Marshall
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Music or musicians, New York City, Exile or expatriates, West Indies, Jazz music, Grandparents or grandchildren, Pianos or pianists, Arthurian legend
- Locales: Brooklyn, NY
In The Fisher King, eight-year-old Sonny Payne arrives in the United States with Hattie Carmichael, an American expatriate who has cared for him in Paris since his birth, when his parents disappeared. Hattie, once a scorned foster child, grudgingly returns to Brooklyn in response to a letter from Edgar Payne, a wealthy real estate developer and brother of the great jazz pianist Sonny-Rett Payne, Sonny's grandfather Edgar has asked her to bring the boy for a memorial concert that will honor Sonny-Rett on the fifteenth anniversary of his death in Paris, when he was detained in a...
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