Dirty Bird blues
Major, Clarence2022
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Set in Chicago and Omaha, 'Dirty Bird blues' features Manfred Banks (called "Man"), a young harmonica-blowing blues singer who creates colorful and amazing music. Painfully torn between his friendship with fellow musician Sally and his great love for and responsibility to his beautiful wife, Cleo, and daughter, Karina, while struggling with the constraints of racist America, Man seeks relief in "Dirty Bird" whiskey. He also relocates to Omaha with hopes of better opportunities as a blue-collar worker and singer, but the blues in his heart and mind keep bringing him back to face himself. After a nightmarish descent into his own troubled depths, Man emerges with fresh awareness of the possibility of renewal.
Main title:
Dirty Bird blues / Clarence Major.
Author:
Major, Clarence, author
Edition:
New edition / introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2022.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: San Francisco: Mercury House, 1996.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780143136590 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2288970
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