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Dirty bird blues : a novel / by Clarence Major.
- Title
- Dirty bird blues : a novel / by Clarence Major.
- Author
- Major, Clarence
- Publication
- San Francisco, Calif. : Mercury House, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3563.A39 D57 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 279 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- A tale of post-World War II black America through the eyes of an out-of-work bluesman. He is Manfred Banks who seeks easy answers to joblessness and racism in whisky and in moving on. But the blues in his soul and the dreams in his mind keep bringing him back to face himself and eventually he emerges from his depths. By the author of Such Was the Season.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Musical fiction.
- Historical fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1562790838 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96013310^
- OCLC
- 34356908
- SCSB-11300900
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library