The Resource No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again, Edgardo Vega Yunqué
No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again, Edgardo Vega Yunqué
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The item No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again, Edgardo Vega Yunqué represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- "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 Vidama̕ 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 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. Vidama̕ struggles to bring her father back to the world of jazz. Her quest gives her a new understanding of family, particularly through her half-sisters Fawn, a lonely young poet plagued with a secret, and Cookie, a sassy, streetsmart homegirl who happens to be "white." And when Vidama̕ becomes involved with a young African-American jazz saxophonist, she is forced to explore her own complex roots, along with the dizzying contradictions of race etched in the American psyche"--Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 638 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374223113
- Label
- No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again
- Title
- No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again
- Statement of responsibility
- Edgardo Vega Yunqué
- Title variation
- No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey aint never coming home again
- Subject
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- trueAfrican-American jazz saxophonists
- Bildungsromans
- Birthfathers
- trueBirthfathers
- Birthfathers -- Fiction
- trueBlended families
- trueDisabled veterans
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- trueEthnic identity
- trueFamily relationships
- Fiction
- trueGender identity
- trueHalf-sisters
- trueInterracial romance
- trueIrish Americans
- Irish Americans
- Irish Americans -- Fiction
- trueJazz musicians
- Jazz musicians
- Jazz musicians -- Fiction
- trueJazz pianists
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueLower East Side, New York City
- trueMemories
- trueMen with disabilities
- Musical fiction
- Musical fiction
- New York (State) -- New York | Lower East Side
- truePeople with disabilities
- truePuerto Rican people
- Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Ricans -- Fiction
- Race relations
- trueRace relations
- Race relations -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- Stepfamilies
- Stepfamilies -- Fiction
- Veterans
- trueVeterans
- trueVeterans with disabilities
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction
- trueVietnam veterans
- trueViolence
- Young women
- 1961-1975
- Young women -- Fiction
- trueYoung women
- trueAfrican American jazz musicians
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 Vidama̕ 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 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. Vidama̕ struggles to bring her father back to the world of jazz. Her quest gives her a new understanding of family, particularly through her half-sisters Fawn, a lonely young poet plagued with a secret, and Cookie, a sassy, streetsmart homegirl who happens to be "white." And when Vidama̕ becomes involved with a young African-American jazz saxophonist, she is forced to explore her own complex roots, along with the dizzying contradictions of race etched in the American psyche"--Publisher's description
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 120261
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1936-2008
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Yunqué, Edgardo Vega
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Irish Americans
- Jazz musicians
- Race relations
- Puerto Ricans
- Birthfathers
- Stepfamilies
- Young women
- Birthfathers
- Irish Americans
- Jazz musicians
- Puerto Ricans
- Race relations
- Stepfamilies
- Veterans
- Young women
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (State)
- Label
- No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again, Edgardo Vega Yunqué
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 473267
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 638 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374223113
- Lccn
- 2003044064
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780374223113
- (OCoLC)51728795
- Label
- No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again, Edgardo Vega Yunqué
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 473267
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 638 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374223113
- Lccn
- 2003044064
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780374223113
- (OCoLC)51728795
Subject
- trueAfrican-American jazz saxophonists
- Bildungsromans
- Birthfathers
- trueBirthfathers
- Birthfathers -- Fiction
- trueBlended families
- trueDisabled veterans
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- trueEthnic identity
- trueFamily relationships
- Fiction
- trueGender identity
- trueHalf-sisters
- trueInterracial romance
- trueIrish Americans
- Irish Americans
- Irish Americans -- Fiction
- trueJazz musicians
- Jazz musicians
- Jazz musicians -- Fiction
- trueJazz pianists
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueLower East Side, New York City
- trueMemories
- trueMen with disabilities
- Musical fiction
- Musical fiction
- New York (State) -- New York | Lower East Side
- truePeople with disabilities
- truePuerto Rican people
- Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Ricans -- Fiction
- Race relations
- trueRace relations
- Race relations -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- Stepfamilies
- Stepfamilies -- Fiction
- Veterans
- trueVeterans
- trueVeterans with disabilities
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction
- trueVietnam veterans
- trueViolence
- Young women
- 1961-1975
- Young women -- Fiction
- trueYoung women
- trueAfrican American jazz musicians
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