Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black : and Other Stories

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Call Number: BOCD Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Beethoven was one-sixteenth black -- Tape measure -- Dreaming of the dead -- A frivolous woman -- Gregor -- Safety procedures -- Mother tongue -- Allesverloren -- History -- A beneficiary -- Alternative endings -- The first sense -- The second sense -- The third sense.
Read by David Colacci and Susan Ericksen.
In the title story, a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. "Dreaming of the Dead" conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in "History" is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped. "Alternative Endings" considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories--and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.

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