Monday 1 January 1996

Dirty Bird Blues - Clarence Major

Book Details

Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Modern Fiction
Publisher: Mercury House
Publication Date: 1996


Fictional Artist: Manfred Banks
Genre: Blues
Country: USA
Real World Analogue: N/A

Jacket Blurb
The acclaimed author of Such Was the Season and Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African American Slang tells the story of Manfred Banks, a Chicago blues musician and blue-collar worker who drifts from Chicago to Omaha in the 1950s, struggling with domestic responsibilities and a racist America that assaults him at every turn.

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