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Dirty Bird Blues
By (author) Clarence Major, Introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa
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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.
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Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd
Published date | 27 Oct 2022
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 288
Dimensions | 198 x 130 x 23mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 281g
ISBN | 978-0-1431-3659-0
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BISAC | fiction / literary
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