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An edition of The clarinet polka (2002)

The clarinet polka

1st U.S. ed.

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"The year is 1969, and young Jimmy Koprowski returns from his stint in the air force 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 bands 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
406

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Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Bands (Music), Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Musical fiction, Bildungsromans, Polish American families, Fiction, Polka (Dance), Young men, Veterans, Fiction, war & military, West virginia, fiction, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, Fiction, sagas

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Cover of: The Clarinet Polka
The Clarinet Polka: A Novel
June 1, 2004, St. Martin's Griffin
Paperback in English
Cover of: The clarinet polka
The clarinet polka
2003, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: The clarinet polka
The clarinet polka
2002, Thomas Allen Publishers
in English

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New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PR9199.3.M345 C58 2003, PR 9199.3 .M345 C58 2003, PR9199.3.M345C58

The Physical Object

Pagination
406 p. ;
Number of pages
406

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Open Library
OL3563632M
Internet Archive
clarinetpolka0000mail_i4k8
ISBN 10
0312308892
LCCN
2002032511
OCLC/WorldCat
50638558
Library Thing
487118
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
1977297

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