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An edition of RL's dream (1995)

RL's dream

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RL's Dream is a novel about the blues - the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy and how they sit in judgment on the American experience. In contemporary New York, aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise is alone, ill, and dying. He has played his music in a thousand bars, clubs, and juke joints, but never so memorably as the time he played with one Robert "RL" Johnson in the Mississippi delta.

That brief, indelible encounter with the great genius of country blues haunts Soupspoon, much as Johnson himself is said to have been possessed by Satan. And so Soupspoon proceeds to tell his story to Kiki Waters, the young white woman who has taken him in, another refugee from a South she can neither deny nor escape.

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W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
267

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Subjects
Musical fiction, Fiction, Blues (Music), Blues musicians, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, general, Musicians, fiction, Large type books, American fiction
Places
New York (N.Y.), New York (State), New York
Times
20th century

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1995, Thorndike Press
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813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.O88456 R5 1995, PS3563.O88456R5 1995

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267 p. :
Number of pages
267

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OL1277024M
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ISBN 10
0393038025
LCCN
95008695
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32314169
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70466
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