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The Jazz Palace a novel

The son of a grieving Jewish family in jazz age Chicago impresses patrons of a mob-controlled saloon with his piano talents, which become subject to a changing music era, his need to survive, and exacting mob demands.

Main Author:	Morris, Mary, 1947-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2015]
Edition:	First editon.
Subjects:	Jewish families > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction. Jazz musicians > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction. Nineteen twenties > Fiction. Historical fiction > Illinois

Summary:	The son of a grieving Jewish family in jazz age Chicago impresses patrons of a mob-controlled saloon with his piano talents, which become subject to a changing music era, his need to survive, and exacting mob demands.
Physical Description:	244 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:	9780385539739 (alk. paper) 0385539738 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Mary Morris is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novels A Mother's Love and House Arrest, and nonfiction, including the travel memoir classic Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone. The recipient of the Rome Prize in literature and a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, she was raised in Chicago and now lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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