Late Arcade

by Nathaniel Mackey

Book Overview

Nathaniel Mackey's Late Arcade opens in Los Angeles. A musician known only as N. writes the first of a series of letters to the enigmatic Angel of Dust. N.'s jazz sextet, Molimo m'Atet, has just rehearsed a new tune: the horn players read from The Egyptian Book of the Dead with lips clothespinned shut, while the rest of the band struts and saunters in a cosmic hymn to the sun god Ra. N. ends this breathless session by sending the Angel of Dust...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811226603
• ISBN13: 9780811226608
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"