Song of the Shank – $265
by rgonzalezr
A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era. At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. Song of the Shank opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years […]
Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 2014, América, Blind Tom, Civil war, Fiction, Graywolf Press, Jeffery Renard Allen, music, Novel, Song of the Shank, USA