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Ascension - John Coltrane And His Quest (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press ed)
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Ascension - John Coltrane And His Quest (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press ed)
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Loot Price R498
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It is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age,
is walking on a taut wire strung between the Twin Towers of New
York's World Trade centre, almost fourteen hundred feet above the
city. Far below him in the gaping crowd stands his wife, Anna, to
whom he has made a solemn promise: This wire walk will end his
career. In this daring moment, Steven Galloway opens his riveting
novel about Salvo Ursari, whose life begins in 1919 amid a
Transylvanian boyhood inhabited by gypsy folklore and inspired by
the bravery of his persecuted people. Salvo's story moves
irresistibly from a tragic fire that envelops his family, to street
life in Budapest, where he learns the skills of a wire walker, to
the carnivals of Europe and the competitive world of the American
circus. Most fulfilled when living with paradox, Salvo feels safest
while performing startling feats of balance on a wire high above
the dangerous world and most endangered if performing above a net.
With compassion, warmth, and blazing originality, Ascension
combines jaw-dropping storytelling, and fantastical symbolism with
mesmerizing detail of Romany and circus culture, and an
unforgettable walk with the amazing Salvo Ursari.
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