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Song of the shank : a novel / Jeffery Renad Allen.
Van Pelt Library PS3551.L393815 S66 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blind Tom, 1849-1908--Fiction.
- Blind Tom.
- Blind Tom, 1849-1908--Childhood and youth--Fiction.
- Blind Tom, 1849-1908.
- African American musicians--Fiction.
- African American musicians.
- Exploitation.
- Blind musicians.
- Pianists.
- United States.
- Pianists--United States--Fiction.
- Blind musicians--United States--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- Slavery.
- Exploitation--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 570 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- "In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page [4] of cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-570).
- ISBN:
- 1555976808
- 9781555976804
- OCLC:
- 857967485
- Publisher Number:
- 99958976921
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