A deeply affecting, stylishly elegant novel of remembrance about a young African-American man's advent into the world of academia, an imaginary Alabama college, in the 1930s. A classic . . . one of the great works of African-American writing . . . Murray plays more notes than Faulkner ever dreamed of or in.-Raleigh News & Observer | The Spyglass Tree by Albert Murray, Paperback | Indigo Chapters