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In this tender, sweetly funny debut novel, Lou Farren is on tour with The Day Action Band as a roadie. But as he finds himself falling in love with ... More

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From critically acclaimed novelist Ray Robertson comes a rollicking Great Gatsby of the 60s a sex, drugs, and rocknroll-suffused modern tragedy. For ... More

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It is the summer of 1967, and Leo Suther with one more year of high school to go, still has a lot to learn. He soon finds himself in the middle of a ... More

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It is 1967. There's a war going on in Vietnam. In rural Heywood, Massachusetts, white men are playing the blues and eighteen-year-old Leo Suther is ... More

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Told in a voice that's honest, urgent, and hilarious, "Struts & Frets" is a bright debut novel about forming a band, falling in love, and facing the ... More

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A gritty fantasy mixing black magic and Delta Blues, this novel introduces Texas bluesman Slim, who is down on his luck but who loves the "real down ... More

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A week after Hank and Lily decide to break up, they start a band together and come up with a unique gimmick: the band will be made up of ex ... More

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The first novel about the Cuban experience in the United States is a joyous, life-filled exploration of one emigre family's search for self ... More

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Most people reading Gary Benchley's missives on the website themorningnews.org were utterly taken in by the column, which purported to chronicle the ... More

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The break-out novel by an unrecognized master--"a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition" (Washington Post Book World). Told from the ... More

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Mattie took some pound cake and apple pie and visited Wesley at the Young Men's Rehabilitation Centre. She was persistently telling people that the ... More

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"An unpretentious, finely-crafted novel that will linger with the readers like the last strains of a favorite hymn. It is more enjoyable than a ... More

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Spectacular third work in Mackey's ongoing epistolary fiction about modern jazz.

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Mackey, winner of the 2006 National Book Award, presents his fourth volume in his ongoing great American jazz novel with no beginning or end.

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Four ex-lovers/current bandmates jam together amidst today's cutting-edge music scene, in this fresh, funky novel of love lost and fame gained by the ... More

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"A New Directions paperbook original"--P. [4] of cover.

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"The Case of Lena S." follows the life, loves, and coming-of-age of sixteen-year-old Mason Crowe during a year in which he will learn what it truly ... More

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A musicologist sets out to explain the life and work of the tormented African-American jazz saxophone player, Jackson Payne. As he discovers the ... More

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In this tour de force of musical and novelistic achievement, the story of the blues is seen through the eyes of a 102-year-old main character who ... More

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The creator of the critically acclaimed Easy Rawlins mysteries further distinguishes himself with a memorable novel about the blues--as an expression ... More

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From the author of "The New Rules of High School" and "Girl" comes this riveting new novel that shows the realities of life in a rock band and the ... More

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