Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales

Author: Wanda Coleman
Edition: First Edition. states
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1574232126

Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales: New Stories (A Black Sparrow Book)

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With this collection of thirteen new short stories, Wanda Coleman, Los Angeles's unofficial poet laureate, proves an exception to the rule yet again. Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales owes its title to the lyrics of 'Lush Life' by Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington's right-hand man. Like the heartbroken lover of Strayhorn's song, the characters in these stories lead lonely lives full of longing, of potential stifled by racism, poverty, and absurd accidents of fate. And yet, even though they are trapped by the present moment, their inner lives are lush, a mirror of the city of angels in which they live, a metropolis, 'always simmering,' as Coleman writes in the final story, 'ever waiting to Check Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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