THE FISHER KING

The Fisher King

The Fisher King

Introduction

At the opening of The Fisher King, Edgar Payne writes to Hattie Carmichael in Paris that he is planning a memorial concert to take place in the spring of 1984 in honor of his deceased brother. He invites Hattie to attend the concert and with her young Sonny, who is his brother Sonny Rett Payne's grandson. Edgar invites Hattie because she was the closest person to his brother's work and she understood it better than anyone else. Hattie arrives in Brooklyn with Sonny and introduces him to his great-grandmothers, Florence McCullum and Ulene Payne, both ...