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A pulsating, powerful tale of the blues, from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century

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.

Dirty Bird Blues

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Paperback / softback by Clarence Major , Yusef Komunyakaa

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A pulsating, powerful tale of the blues, from one of the great American writers of the twentieth centuryIt is Chicago... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 27/10/2022
    ISBN13: 9780143136590, 978-0143136590
    ISBN10: 0143136593

    Number of Pages: 288

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    A pulsating, powerful tale of the blues, from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century

    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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