<p><strong>Detailing the volatile relationship between the black violinist George Bridgetower and Beethoven, this is a "masterful collection" (Los Angeles Times).</strong></p> The son of a white woman and an "African Prince," George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780–1860) travels to Vienna to meet "b
Sonata mulattica: poems
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2015;2010
- Edition
- First published as a Norton paperback 2010
- Category
- Fiction
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