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The clarinet polka - Keith Maillard

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Author Keith Maillard received critical acclaim with his novel Gloria, which told the story of a young woman on the cusp of womanhood in a town called Raysburg, West Virginia. In his newest book, The Clarinet Polka, Maillard turns that same eagle-eyed attention to the other side of the tracks of that very same town and creates a stunning portrait of Polish America and of one man?s struggle to find meaning in his life and roots.

The year is 1969, and young Jimmy Koprowski returns from his stint in the airforce to Raysburg, his blue-collar Polish American hometown where nothing much happens beyond working at the steel mill, going to Mass, and getting drunk at the local PAC. Jimmy?s efforts at rebuilding his life result in sleeping off hangovers in his parents? attic and drifting into a destructive affair with a married woman.

But things change when his younger sister Linda decides to start an all-girl polka band, and Jimmy falls for the band?s star clarinetist, Janice, whose young life is haunted by tragic events that happened before she was born. The threads of Jimmy?s family life, the legacy of WWII Poland, and the healing power of music, language, and tradition all begin to converge.

At once gritty and compassionate, moving and witty, The Clarinet Polka showcases the emotional and perfectly pitched voice of a lost soul finding his way.
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Advance praise for The Clarinet Polka

?Deeply and authentically rooted in Polish-American culture, The Clarinet Polka also brilliantly resonates into the universal human condition. Keith Maillard has created a fictional landscape in and around Raysburg, West Virginia, that brims with life as we all live it. This is a remarkable novel from an important writer.?(Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain)

?Great novels immerse their readers into a world previously unknown and by that test alone, this is a great novel. A West Virginia Polish community is the setting for this touching story, a place where dreamers, misfits, lost souls, saints, and sinners all dance to the rhythm of the joyful polka which will, given time, heal all their wounds. I promise these are people you will never forget and will be glad you got to know.?(Homer H. Hickam, Jr., bestselling author of Rocket Boys)

?Encore! I?ll play over and again in my mind this hard-edged, sweet-souled story of a heart?s homecoming.?(Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Songs From a Lead-Lined Room and Hoopi Shoopi Donna)

Praise for Gloria

?Keith Maillard gets the details right . . . succeeds in building a gilded, crinoline-draped labyrinth and watching his lithe, artful protagonist wiggle and reason her way to freedom.?(New York Times Book Review)

?A mesmerizing story . . . succeeds in prompting reflection on the nature of authenticity in a culture that easily surrenders to stereotypes and sound bites.?(Boston Sunday Globe)

?Beautifully detailed . . . enormously entertaining.?(Marie Claire)

?Recalls Balzac or George Eliot. . . . Meticulously observed, immensely satisfying.? (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

?A merciless and accurate picture of the power grid of American class and gender at mid-century, a meditation on the nature of human consciousness and creativity, an investigation into the horrors and delights of emergent sexuality, an homage to the powers of friendship between women. . . . This is a book that delivers profound pleasures of the body, the mind, and the spirit.?(Vancouver Sun)
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About the Author

Keith Maillard was born and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the inspiration for the fictional town of Raysburg which serves as the setting for The Clarinet Polka and Gloria (shortlisted for Canada?s Governor General?s Award). His previous eight novels include Two Strand River and Alex Driving South. He now lives in Vancouver with his wife and two daughters and teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0312308906
  • ASIN: B000GG4HQQ
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces

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