Die upon a kiss

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Author:
Hambly, Barbara
Series:
Benjamin January volume 5
Publisher:
Bantam Books
Publication Date:
[2001]
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English
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In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theater's impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But it's pitch-black in the alley where free man of color Benjamin January hears a slurred whisper, spies the flash of a knife, and is himself wounded as he rescues Belaggio from a vicious attack. Could competition for audiences-or for Belagio's affections-provoke such violent skulduggery? Or is Shakespeare's tragic tale, with its spectacle of a black man's passion for a white beauty, one that some Creole citizen-or American parvenu-would do anything to keep off the stage? The soaring music will lead January into a tangle of love, hate, and greed more treacherous than any onstage drama, as he must discover who is and who will Die Upon a Kiss.

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African American men
African American men -- Fiction
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Fiction
Free African Americans
Free African Americans -- Fiction
Historical fiction
January, Benjamin
January, Benjamin -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction
Opera
Opera -- Fiction
Suspense fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)

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