- Singers, Biography, Soul musicians, Gaye, marvin, 1939-1984
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and spare.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David Ritz
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- Grafton Bks., Omnibus Press, PaperJacks
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780770104238
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First sentence
“Marvin's father-Marvin Pentz Gay, Sr., the third of thirteenth children-was born on a farm along Catnip Hill Pike in Jessamine Country, Kentucky, on October 1, 1914.”
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