The Autobiography of a Jukebox: Poems (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

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One of Burke's series of crime stories set in the Louisiana bayou country, this story chronicles the difficult mission of Sheriff's Deputy Dave Robicheaux to confirm the guilt of a redneck named Aaron Crown in the killing of a civil rights leader back in the 1960s, and to find out what Crown's recent arrest has to do with an upcoming gubernatorial election. His task becomes mired in the history and inbred politics of New Iberia and thwarted by a ghoulish hit man who crawls out of the swamps to silence police informants. A wild story with enough oddball characters to make it interesting and worthwhile.

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When former Klansman and piney-woods outcast Aaron Crown is imprisoned for a decades old murder, his former friend Dave Robicheaux finds himself believing in Crown's innocence. Then a Hollywood filmmaker who has taken up Crown's case is found murdered, and the most villainous character Burke has created to date, Mookie Zerrang, brings his bloody agenda to the Cajun wetlands of South Louisiana.

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Burke does it again.......2007-06-15

James Lee Burke in Cadillac Jukebox does an excellent job of describing the corruption in Louisiana politics that has been around for years. This book kept me on the edge of my seat wondering where it was going next. This was my second Burke book and I will be reading many more. Recommended to all. Keep them coming Mr Burke.

Story is good but becoming predictable.......2006-10-26

This is the third time that JLB has tackled the same type of story: a old murder, an old acquaintance, an old girlfriend and a boyhood friend (who is on the wrong side of the law).

The old murder involves the killing of a NAACP civil rights activist forty years ago by a KKK racist. The old acquaintance is an ex-vietnam marine (sound familiar) who became successful (came from the right side of the tracks) and is now running for Governor. The ex-girlfriend is now the politicians wife who has never forgiven Dave for dumping her. The old boyhood friend is a 'made-man' who has been playing both sides for a while and is now in trouble with everyone.

Needless to say the bad-guys get their cumuppence and the good guys win, but as always there is some collateral damage to someone near Dave. His old friend and bait shop buddy, Batist, gets stuck between a rock and a hard place, but thankfully survives.

Life, Death, and Politics to a Cajun Beat.......2006-07-09

Glenda, the Good Witch of Northern Oz, said "It's always best to start at the Beginning," but she was talking about the Yellow Brick Road. With James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux mystery and mayhem series, that ain't necessarily so, it's all Good, and the reader may start anywhere within this steamy, murkily atmospheric Southern Louisiana stories arc.

In this affair, Burke illustrates that "Some Saturday afternoon heroes will never go gently into that good night." Patrician Golden Boy and former LSU quarterback, descendent of KKK lynchmongers, Buford LaRose is running for Governor of the Great State of Louisiana. His ultra-libidinous wife, daughter of a gumball vendor to cheerleader, aspires to be First Lady. What have they to do with the 30 year old murder of a Civil Rights leader? and what about the Tim Leary flashback guru guy?

Burke as Robicheaux in the 1st person does his usual deft job of leading us through a mire of local characters, backwoods highways and bayous and, for tunes for the trip, there's that titular Cadillac Jukebox. /TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer

Back where he belongs..........2005-09-28

I like James Lee Burke best when he confines his books to local themes, and he does just that in Cadillac Jukebox, the 9th in his Dave Robicheaux mystery series.

Robicheaux is still working for the New Iberia Sheriff's Department. Buford LaRose comes from a prominent New Iberia family and was a former college football hero. This golden boy is now running for governor. Over three decades prior, Aaron Crown (a former Klansman) was accused of murdering a civil rights leader, although it took 28 years to bring him to trial. LaRose wrote a book that helped bring about a conviction. Now, a filmmaker is filming a documentary in New Iberia to prove Crown's innocence. Robicheaux is asked to check out Crown's claims, and Robicheaux begins to think Crown was made a scapegoat. As Robicheaux investigates this case, he gets warned away by a number of strange and unattached individuals. As in most Southern Louisiana schemes, the mob is always close at hand. Also, there is a terribly frigtening hit man, Mookie Zerrang, who tortures just for fun. He's after Robicheaux, although he doesn't know who hired him.

The more Robicheaux digs, the more dead bodies turn up (mostly those involved with proving Crown's innocence). Unfortunately, with people like Buford LaRose, evil deeds are done in their names but they never dirty their own hands. Robicheaux is determined to not only find some dirt under LaRose's fingernails, but also, some skeletons in his closet. The plot is made even more interesting by the fact that LaRose's wife, Karyn, had a romance with Robicheaux back in his drinking days. Robicheaux unceremoniously dumped this homecoming queen and Karyn now has a hidden agenda that includes humiliation and revenge.

Robicheaux's new partner, Helen Hoileau, continues to be a good match, and friend Cletus Purcel is always a scream. A former cop, Purcel tells Robicheaux he is better able to work outside the law to help solve cases. That's definitely an understatement.

I have four more books in this series to read, and I'm going to be sorry to see it come to an end.

Great atmosphere fails to carry the day..........2005-02-12

This is part of a series of books written about an ex-New Orleans cop named Dave Robicheaux nd his trials and tribulations. This book continues some of the same themes that characterize the series as a whole, such as racism, race relations, the difficulties of being a cop while also being father and husband.

I love the setting and the details Burke puts in his books about New Orleans and the whole Bayou scene. He shows us the seemy side of New Orleans (which is not too hard to do - if you've ever been there you know what I mean. Not that every other city is problem-free, its just that New Orleans seemy side is very public - hey, its one of the attractions). Burke has a great ear for accents, and this makes parts of his books fun to read. However, his books can be depressing. No one rides off happily in the sunset..

This particular book concerns a white man jailed in the 1990s for the murder of an NAACP leader in the 1960s. He claims he did not do it, but the man running for governor made his reputation proving he did. Dave R. happens to know both men and gets dragged into the controversy against his better judgement...

Grade: C - great atmosphere, unnecessary plot twists.

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Life In The South -- When?
LITERARY BUT WITH COMMERCIAL APPEAL
A Reminder of the Rural South

The Celestial Jukebox: A Novel
Cynthia Shearer
Manufacturer: Shoemaker & Hoard
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1593760523

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The Celestial Jukebox is set in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar. Shearer’s rural south is dependent on the rather less attractive fruits of capitalism, including agribusiness, gambling, and the dwindling vices surrounding the retail trades. The mood feels like a very humid melancholy. And into this weather comes Boubacar, a 15-year-old boy from Africa joining friends from Mauritania already living in the area—new African blacks not especially noteworthy in a small town filled with Chinese emigrants, African Americans within memory of slavery, straggling members of the original white families of the area, and unsorted other imports. Boubacar visits The Celestial Grocery, the virtual city center presided over by a cranky second-generation Chinese proprietor and his equally cranky jukebox that often hoards its treasure of Slim Harpo, Sam Cooke, and Wanda Jackson, when stuck on the same sad Louvin Brothers song. The tie that binds all these lives is American popular music, its origins and power. The purity and beauty of the writing—like the purity of the imagined soundtrack of more than 30 songs that exists within this story—marks The Celestial Jukebox as a rare book, filled with music, struggle, and spontaneous joy.

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Life In The South -- When?.......2005-07-05

In Madagascar, there is The Celestial Grocery with a vintage jukebox of old Southern soul songs. It was the last of a constellation of Chinese-run country stores which used to exist in almost every river town between Memphis and New Orleans. The original sign was an ancient pressed-tin Coca-Cola sign with a Chinese symbol which wished "long life" to all who entered there.
There is an old boarded up Lyric Theater past its time.

I was intrigued with the title only to find it was a 1968 worn-out thing which sometimes works, not properly. On it you may find Johnny Cash, Percy Sledge, Patsy Cline's 'Crazy,' and Hank Williams' Kalayga -- American roots music. On the radio, you could hear monks in Himalayas chanting or aboriginal panpipes. This was the way life was in the outback of the South maybe a hundred years ago. This novel, however, takes place in that small town across the river from Memphis filled with a variety of different kinds of people, none high-class.

The author, originally from Massachuetts and Georgia, was curator of William Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi. She chose rural Mississippi at the time of 9-11-2001 happenings and how it affected their mixed-race life. She shows the badness of the South after moving on to Texas.

LITERARY BUT WITH COMMERCIAL APPEAL.......2005-02-24

THE CELESTIAL JUKEBOX is so rich and compelling, my only complaint is that I couldn't resist reading and make it last longer. I'll be hard-put to find a next novel of equal merit. Cynthia Shearer's writing is fresh and exact--never a cliche.

The best books, it's been said, are the ones you can't figure how they were written. I don't know how Shearer did this!

Author, Janice Daugharty

A Reminder of the Rural South.......2005-01-16

The Celestial Jukebox, Cynthia Shearer's second novel, is a journey into the fictitious town of Madagascar, Mississippi. The words Shearer chooses to tell this story are as heavy and slow to the tongue as the weight of the townspeople's daily rituals and the memory of their many disappointments. Shearer, of course, does this to bring about an authenticity that might not otherwise be so well conveyed. Like its people, Madagascar falls short of the glory of independence, and relies on the vices of others for survival-with one bright exception. In the corner of a grey, little store called the Celestial Grocery sits the Celestial Jukebox-a place where people have brought their sorrows, heartaches as well as their joys and triumphs since 1938.

Boubacar, an unlikely resident of Madagascar, is a 15 year old boy from Mauritania who visits the Celestial Grocery, and meets the grocery store's owner, Angus Chien, a cantankerous old man with a southern accent that seems mismatched with his oriental skintone and slanted eyes. He is the second generation of his Chinese family and the South is all he knows. Angus offers Boubacar a job and Boubacar quickly discovers the Celestial Jukebox. Never updated and never repaired, the Jukebox plays the heavenly classics from Sam Cooke, Slim Harpo and Bob Dylan to name a few and if you want to hear them, well, Mr. Chien keeps coins on top of the Jukebox so you can. It's one of those kind, little gestures he makes that lets us know he isn't always so crabby.

Shearer takes her time introducing us to the characters that make up Madagascar. Dean Fondren a man who knows where he is going to die, and his wife Alexis who doesn't think she wants to know such things. Raine is a middle-aged woman who can't help but reminisce when she hears Bob Dylan. She struggles to find that beautiful woman she used to was before she was a mother and wife-when she was somebody.

The tone throughout is thick with rich desperation, slow climbs to celestial moments and superb description. At times I wanted it to move along a bit faster, but looking back, I'm glad Shearer stayed true to the pace that matches the pace of rural Mississippi. She brilliantly puts you smack dab in the heart of Mississippi on typical summer's evening. You might even want a cool wet rag around your neck to stave off the humidity as you read, and you share what the townspeople of Madagascar share-life in the South and The Celestial Jukebox.

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Jukeboxes: An American Social History
Kerry Segrave
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0786411813

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This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison in the 1880s up to its relative obscurity in the year 2000. The jukebox's first twenty years were essentially experimental because of the low technical quality and other limitations. It then practically disappeared for a quarter-century, beaten out by the player piano as the coin-operated music machine of choice. But then, new and improved, it reemerged and quickly spread in popularity across America, largely as a result of the repeal of Prohibition and the increased number of bars around the nation. Other socially important elements of the jukebox's development are also covered: it played patriotic tunes during wartime and, located in youth centers, entertained young people and kept them out of "trouble." The industry's one last fling due to a healthy export trade is also covered, and the book rounds out with the decline in the 1950s and the fadeout into obscurity. Richly illustrated.

The Autobiography of a Jukebox (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

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The Subjectivity of a Jukebox
vitally thoughtful narrative

The Autobiography of a Jukebox (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)
Cornelius Eady
Manufacturer: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0887482376

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The Subjectivity of a Jukebox.......1998-03-18

The title of "The Autobiography of a Jukebox" calls to mind a jukebox telling its life story through its songs. In this way Eady's title hints at the way his book will examine a subject--a house, a narrative, a photo--through the medium of itself. This technique can be highly effective, as in "Money Won't Change It (but time will take you on)." In this poem, the speaker reflects on the jealousy and destructive competition of a community by reconstructing the conflicts among neighbors: "'You're rich, lady,' hissed the young woman at/ My mother as she bent in her garden." Eady's technique of letting jealousy and competition tell their own story evokes (through his layering of subject and object) the claustrophobia of the neighborhood.

But in the political section of Eady's work (titled "Rodney King Blues"), Eady's technique collapses into polemics. In "Nobody's Fault But Mine" the speaker simply attacks the defense team's interpretation of the beating; Eady's political position is understandable, even admirable, but this is a subject best confronted head-on by the prosecution, not a poet. Nonetheless, Eady possesses quite a talent for descriptive narration. If there's a slow-spun, endearing quality to some of these poems, it is balanced by an equally charming use of the occasional cliche.

vitally thoughtful narrative.......1998-03-17

I found this to be a very direct book, a very accessible book of poetry I would, in many cases, be hard-pressed to distinguish from prose. This is especially apparent in the "Rodney King Blues" section, where four of the seven poems look and read almost like prose poems. Its similarity to prose I would attribute to three techniques: informal diction, a direct, very narrative tone, and interesting line breaks (or lack thereof).

Eady uses words wonderfully in juxtaposition. For example, in "Anger" "spin doctors do their stuff" and the "op ed page" appears, as does "haughty anger" and a "dark sunglassed angel repository". Common speech coexists with poetic diction; I enjoyed this very much and would strive for it in my own work for the sake of the variety and shock value it lends the poems. Eady's poems, especially the prose-poem-like ones, are written as if the speaker is just talking to the reader, telling stories of family, pain, music and lyric, love, even his hair. I really enjoyed the personal element that this informal language and narrative tone brought to the poems. They seem to capture experience without mediation and present it very honestly while avoiding plainness. I notice, though, that despite Eady's conversational tone and speech-like word choices he makes each word work, as in "Johnny on the Mainline": "This man, who I am quickly learning I don't know well at all anymore, is a broken heart, and a heartbreaker" (note the very long line). His skill with words is something I admire and strive for in my own work.

Formally, Eady's poems are intriguing, particularly as regards their lineation. He usually (in this book) alternates between very short, fairly rhythmic lines of two or three beats without many stanzaic divisions and verse paragraphs without any line distinction whatsoever. The 'metered' poems recall song lyrics to mind in the manner in which they sound more formal but maintain the direct conversationaly connection with the reader. I like his style very much: it is the trained speech of a skilled storyteller who can concisely engage his audience. His poetry, I believe, would be a good example of "formal, free, and fractal verse" (see Alice Fulton's 1985 [?] essay on form in contemporary poetry).

I also found his division of the book into sections to be particularly effective. His writing is very thematic - I sometimes wonder if he's exploring an issue thoroughly or beating a dead horse - and fits well within the sections. The section titles I love. "Small Moments" I found delightful: the poems show just that, small moments, but they sparkle and are exactly the sort of thing I find intriguing as a reader and about which I would like to write.

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See that JukeBox Music!.......2006-06-28

This color glossy photographic celebration of "the Classic Years" of American Jukes is drop dead gorgeous. It is a "must-have" for the jukebox collector.

For essential descriptions, histories, and values of various makes and models, this jb afficianada recommends Michael Baulte et. al's *the Always Jukin Official Guide to Collectible Jukeboxes* with its periodic updates.

Buy `em both for an excellent composite resource of these Grand Old Music Machines. /TundraVision

Best Photography and interesting commentary.......2002-05-19

This is one of the best visual compilations of American Jukeboxes for the collector and devotee. Recalls pre-radio and TV days when people met in person not electronically.

Every coffee table hould have one. Every house should have an original box for the family to dance around.

Excellent.......1998-06-11

This is an excellent reference photo book for anyone interested in classic jukeboxes. The photos are outstanding and there is a reference section at the back that gives a brief description of the jukeboxes and related equipment.

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life and love during wartime in malta
Humor in wartime.
The madness of love amidst the madness of war.
Authentic and absorbing
marvelous!!!

The JUKEBOX QUEEN OF MALTA: A Novel
Nicholas Rinaldi
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0684856123

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In the annals of great literature, Malta's one potential claim to fame is that it might have been the location of Calypso's island in The Odyssey; apart from that, this tiny, windswept island midway between Italy and Libya makes itself scarce on the fictional front. But Nicholas Rinaldi brings it front and center in his remarkable second novel, The Jukebox Queen of Malta, and if his descriptions of the place leave you cold, his characters won't. Set during the early years of World War II, the story begins with the arrival of American soldier Rocco Raven, late of Brooklyn, during an air raid. While running from an attacking Messerschmitt, Raven is rescued by Jack Fingerly, a shadowy character who may--or may not--be an Army intelligence officer. To Rocco, a car mechanic in civilian life with a taste for Melville, Nietzsche, and Edgar Allan Poe, nothing about Malta makes sense--except his feelings for Melita Azzard, the eponymous heroine whom he meets during one of the incessant bombings that punctuate life on the island:

There was a freedom to the way she moved, a confidence and self-assurance. She paused to look up as yet another Stuka swept by, this one trailing a plume of black smoke from its fuselage. Then she looked back, over her shoulder, and saw him coming along half a block behind her.

Though the romance between Rocco and Melita is at the heart of the novel, Rinaldi has more than wartime love on his mind. His island is a marvelous place populated by unhappy pilots who get promoted every time they're shot down; repairmen who have turned jukeboxes into a wartime industry; old men who dream of a "Greater Malta" composed of an annexed Italy ("Sicily we don't want, it's too full of thugs and mafiosi. Rome we give to the pope, but the rest of Italy is ours"); and ordinary people who carry on their quotidian lives in the midst of not-so-quotidian carnage. There's a dreamy, disturbing quality to this novel, as though Catch-22 and Alice in Wonderland met and married. Rocco blames it on the island: "Malta was doing this--everything shifting, turning, uncertain"; the reader, however, knows better. This jewel of a novel owes everything to Nicholas Rinaldi's tilted imagination and considerable prose talents. --Alix Wilber

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From the heralded author of Bridge Fall Down comes this magical, mesmerizing love story in the tradition of Catch-22 and Corelli's Mandolin.

The year is 1942 and Rocco Raven, intrepid auto mechanic from Brooklyn, arrives in Malta as the wireless operator for a small American liaison team. Rocco knows nothing of the Mediterranean island's rich history -- its Neolithic caves, Copper Age temples, and fortresses built by the Knights of St. John. He knows only that the Germans and Italians are battering the place with bombs night and day, and as he stumbles onto the tarmac in the thick of an air raid, he sees little more than smoke and magnesium glare -- and heaps of rubble.

But nothing is as it seems on Malta. Rocco's barracks are a brothel; his commanding officer is an unparalleled genius who turns the war's misfortunes into personal profit; and the Maltese people, astonishingly, live as though there is no war -- dancing, drinking, laughing, loving. When, within days of his arrival, Rocco's barracks are bombed, he wanders deliriously through the devastated streets of Valletta until he sees an apparition -- a beautiful, ethereal woman. She is Melita, who spends her days delivering the jukeboxes her cousin builds out of shards of glass and twisted metal left in the wake of the bombings. Their connection is passionate and instantaneous, and they embark upon a tumultuous love affair despite the ruin around them. It seems Rocco has found a reason to live, a reason to fight. But the passing months of starvation, the deaths of friends and comrades, and the endless shower of bombs threaten to undo him. Rocco will do anything to escape the horror -- including jeopardize his love for Melita, and his very life.

The Jukebox Queen of Malta is an exquisite and enchanting novel, an account of love and war set on an island perilously balanced between what is real and what is not, with characters who test -- and testify to -- the resiliency of the human spirit. Music and bombs, romance and war, the jukebox and the gun exist in arresting counterpoint in this profound and deeply moving exploration of the redemptive powers of love.

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life and love during wartime in malta.......2003-04-19

life and love during wartime in malta set during the germain bombardments of the island country. a good read

Humor in wartime........2002-06-21

This was a light-hearted humorous story about Malta during the Second World War. Nicholas Rinaldi successfully moved the reader through a number of quirky characters whose motivations were shaped by the uncertainty of the war. There was an addicted gambler, a clumsy pilot and of course Melita the heroine - a spontaneous beautiful Maltese who captured Rocco Raven's heart - the stranded American soldier whose devotion to duty became an obstacle to his relationship with the heroine.
The book is funny and it brought out the chaos and the craziness of war amidst the resilience and the resourcefulness of the Maltese, the expatriate business people and the military personnel that defended the island.
The writer gave the reader an excellent description of nightlife in Malta, which was incomplete without good food and various American wartime music. And one got an overview aerial combat in Rinaldi's depiction of warplanes that constantly pounded the island with bombs.
The writer, I believe, tried too hard to mimic Catch-22 by the late Joseph Heller, who incidentally wrote praises that the publisher placed on the jacket of the hardcover. While I would put Catch-22 and Rinaldi's book in same class, I would place The Jukebox Queen of Malta a couple of rungs below Heller's masterpiece.

The madness of love amidst the madness of war........2002-02-04

Melita Azzard is a forthright Maltese girl who delivers and services jukeboxes. Her resourceful cousin Zammit collects the makings of these jukeboxes from the rubble of bombed out buildings in 1942 Mslta and transforms them into objects of beauty and artistry.

That is what Nicholas Rinaldi has done with this novel. It is a beautiful tapestry constructed from the fragments and debris left over by engagements of war and love.

Rocco Raven, a young, impressionable Brooklynite inserted into the chaos of Malta during an air raid in 1942 feels as if he has fallen through the looking glass instead. He cannot find his superior officer, instead falling under the influence of a very shady captain in the American Army intelligence corps. They, along with one other intelligence officer, constitute the total American presence on Malta. The other main military presence is that of a contingent of British pilots trapped in a very Catch 22-esque sort of duty—each time one of them gets shot down and survives-he gets promoted. Rocco sees-and falls for—Melita, and is swept into the chaos of life on Malta during the war helping out with the jukebox business when not trying to do his intelligence work and/or trying not to get sucked into the various shady deals his superior officer is embroiled in.

Rinaldi does a masterful job of truly developing the characters, the scene, the sense of unreality that was wartime Malta. The love story is genuine and moving. The wartime shenanigans of Rocco’s superior are just zany and dangerous enough to capture our imaginations. And the chaos, tragedy and farce that is modern warfare is in full evidence throughout the novel.

This is a truly great book. Read it.

Authentic and absorbing.......2002-01-01

The atmosphere created by Nicholas Rinaldi in this novel is authentic: this was Malta in WWII, when there was constant bombing, little food and a common desperation that led to individual acts of heroism, ingenuity, folly. Having lived in Malta for 27 years, the scenes, characters and dilemmas created by Rinaldi reawakened in me a kind of nostalgia; reminded me of the steadfast, ingenious Maltese: their seige mentality, pious irreverence and black humour. The writing is crisp, immediate and evocative, with passing references to literary and historical stuff, emotional and psychological stuff and religious and philosophical stuff: but it is never heavy, overbearing or dry. This is an engaging novel that entertains while it makes the reader wonder (because it is obvious the history on which it is based is real) how the human spirit experiences, endures and lives to overcome. There are insurmountable obstacles facing the characters in this books. There are classical juxtapositions of characters and scenes. There are locations that suddenly take on personalities of their own, taking charge and dominating the story. That's Malta for you: its history, presence, size and improbabilities arrest the heart. In this case, it made an author stay and write on. I found it hard to put down, and will find it hard to forget.

marvelous!!!.......2001-08-11

I thoroughly enjoyed this story...a wonderful blend of drama, tragedy, romance and humor...the kind of story I love. Sometimes I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! The love story between Rocco and Melita was "real" - based on war-time passion and uncertainty - a reaching out for love and hope in the midst of devastation and sorrow. My heart went out to them. The wonderfully colorful characters were interesting and fun...the main and sub-plots were intriguing and kept me page-turning late into the night. I was sorry to have it end.

An American Premium Guide to Jukeboxes and Slot Machines: Identification and Value Guide

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Jukeboxes, Slot Machines and More- Picture and Value Guide

An American Premium Guide to Jukeboxes and Slot Machines: Identification and Value Guide
Jerry Ayliffe
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0896890821

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Identify and value hundreds of slot machines, gumball vendors, arcade and trade stimulators. Jerry Ayliffe highlights the big-time names such as Wurltizer, Seeburg, Rockola, Leebold and more. Pricing in up to four grades of condition.

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Jukeboxes, Slot Machines and More- Picture and Value Guide.......2000-12-16

This handy sized 5 1/4" x 8 1/4", 352 page book features more than 275 great black and white photos of every type of jukebox, gumball, trade-stimulator, and slot machine imaginable. There's plenty of history, investment advice, information on pitfalls, restoration and more, to whet the appetite of any coin-op machine collector. Illustrations are quite large, and the text provided is most interesting. Enthusiasts of these collectibles will find it of great interest and value by adding it to their library.

American Premium Guide to Jukeboxes and Slot Machines: Identification and Value Guide Includes Gumball - Trade Stimulators - Arcade

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American Premium Guide to Jukeboxes and Slot Machines: Identification and Value Guide Includes Gumball - Trade Stimulators - Arcade
Jerry Ayliffe
Manufacturer: Books Americana
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Hugging the Jukebox
Naomi Shihab Nye
Manufacturer: Plume
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ASIN: 0525477039

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