American Blues

£9.99

by Evan Guilford-Blake

Publication date: 23rd October 2014

ISBN
HB: 978-1-909374-93-5
PB: 9781909374249
Epub: 978-1-909374-25-6

Format: H/B, P/B & digital
Price:
UK HB: £14.99
UK PB: £7.99

Imprint: Holland House
BIC Code: FA

Publisher: Holland House
Contact: Robert Peett
contact@hhousebooks.com

 

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Description

SUMMARY: Five stories exploring the mind and soul of American Blues over the last seventy years.

KEY SELLING POINTS:

  • Five powerful stories with music integral to each
  • Classic American tropes and imagery renewed

THE STORIES:
Sonny’s Blues – A dying musician makes it through his last days, through fragments of the past and present.

Tio’s Blues – Two social misfits and the violence resulting from their trust and need for love.
Nighthawks – Four nighthawks confront each other in a racially charged story set in the late-night diner.

Animation – The comic, poignant story of a man in search of the meaning of his life – and of life itself. And a job.

The Easy Lovin’ Blues – A young woman connects two triangular relationships: between her mother and her mother’s young would-be lover; and between an aging trumpet player and a dominating and disturbed blues singer.

REVIEWS:
“American Blues is a terrific collection. Evan Guilford-Blake has the rare gift of capturing the reader’s imagination with the very first lines of these stories, and the characters leap off the page with all their griefs and small triumphs. The settings are gritty and grubby, yet Guilford-Blake has infused them with a tenderness that is irresistible. You’ll finish the book wanting more.” Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of Disturbances in the Field and The Writing on the Wall
“Evan Guilford-Blake masterfully weaves a melancholy suite, which pops and crackles with the warmth of old vinyl recordings replete with hope, sorrow, life, laughter, death, love, loneliness & longing” J. Scott Fugate, ‘The Jazz Evangelist’.
“The characters in American Blues live in a world of bad choices and no choices. Evan Guilford-Blake shows us a hard world, yes, but also the tender spots within it and thereby leads us into a place where we might see our shared humanity.” Neil Ellis Orts, Writer and Performer,Author, Cary and John

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