Editorial Penguin USA
Fecha de edición febrero 2022 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780143136590
288 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 198 mm x 129 mm
It is Chicago in the 1950s and Manfred Banks has the Dirty Bird Blues. A musician and a blue-collar worker, he feels hard the tug of his two responsibilities: those to his wife and child, and those to rhythm and rhyme, to the lyrics that groove a hollow in his mind. Beneath both is the awful grinding racism Manfred meets on streets each day; that which plucks opportunity from his grasp; that which keeps him wandering in search of fresh starts.
And so, in want of easy answers, he turns to the 'Dirty Bird': Old Crow brand whiskey. One of Clarence Major's most influential novels, Dirty Bird Blues is both an extraordinary portrayal of twentieth century Black reality, and an ode to the richness and power of the blues.
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