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Vroman's Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101
Tel: 626-449-5320
Fax: 626-792-7308
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101
Tel: 626-449-5320
Fax: 626-792-7308
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Twelve-year-old Ares Ramirez has a lot of responsibility on his plate as a major caretaker in the life of his younger brother Malcolm, who is mentally handicapped, and trying to live a normal life with his eccentric mother in their trailer by the Salton Sea. Set in the late 1970's after the end of the Vietnam War, but living in an area still being used by the military for weapons testing, Ares' life is full of contradictions and challenges; as he befriends a troubled teenage boy he gets in over his head, with disastrous results. The God of War is an excellent novel exploring the challenges of family and circumstance.
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Robin DG Kelley discusses and signs Thelonious Monk
10/23/2009 7:00 pm
Location:
- Street:
- Vroman's Bookstore
- Additional:
- 695 E. Colorado Blvd
- City:
- Pasadena ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 91101
- Country:
- United States
Composer, performer, icon of the jazz world: Thelonious Sphere Monk broke rules and created a body of work and a sound distinctly his own. His songs, with their witty use of dissonance and devotion to melody, remain standards of the jazz world. But the often misunderstood mystique surrounding his life - ”mad,” “brooding,” and “childlike”- obscures the real life of an American original. Kelley draws on his own personal interviews with Monk's family members and access to the family's private papers and recordings to uncover a witty, generous and intellectually curious man, very different from the eccentric native genius enshrined in legend.
