Dirty Bird Blues (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2022
Authors:	Clarence Major
Introduction by:	Yusef Komunyakaa
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-313659-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-14-313659-3
Barcode:	9780143136590

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