The Chicago syncopator : a Bohemian kid tells about his life in jazz : a novel
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Rolling Meadows, IL : Windy City Publishers, ℗2014.
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9781941478028, 1941478026
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Published
Rolling Meadows, IL : Windy City Publishers, ℗2014.
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Book
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139 pages ; 23 cm
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English
ISBN
9781941478028, 1941478026

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"...I am a syncopator, a jazzman. I mark time by being off beat. My beats make the weak ones strong and the strong ones weak." With those words, the novel's main character, George Nepras, son of Czech immigrants and living a hard life in blue collar early twentieth-century Chicago, spins a tale of his life in jazz and his soul's redemption through it. Haunting the speakeasies of the Raring Twenties, George studies early jazz great like King Olive and befriends jazz legend, Bix Beiderbecke. The road to his calling forces George to struggle against fate, virulent racial tensions, his insular ethnic neighborhood, and his own limitations int he tradition of James T. Farrell's character, Studs Lonigan. Often confused by the conflict between his Czech past and American identity, George nonetheless tackles life with the quiet courage and tenacity of Santiago in the Old Man and the Sea.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Nemec, P. T. (2014). The Chicago syncopator: a Bohemian kid tells about his life in jazz : a novel . Windy City Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nemec, Philip T.. 2014. The Chicago Syncopator: A Bohemian Kid Tells About His Life in Jazz : A Novel. Windy City Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nemec, Philip T.. The Chicago Syncopator: A Bohemian Kid Tells About His Life in Jazz : A Novel Windy City Publishers, 2014.

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Nemec, Philip T.. The Chicago Syncopator: A Bohemian Kid Tells About His Life in Jazz : A Novel Windy City Publishers, 2014.

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