Song of the shank
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jeffery Renard Allen
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9781555976804
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Fiction; Blind musicians; Mothers and sons; Pianists; Family life; African American musicians; Slavery; Exploitation; Musicians; Amerikanisches Englisch; African Americans; Childhood and youth
Description: "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 before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-570).
Table of contents: title: Traveling undergroun (1866); title: Moving house : three views of the city (1867); title: Bird that never alights on the trees (1849-1856); title: Rain storm (1854-1856); title: Voice of the waves (1856-1862); title: The celebration of the living who reflect upon the dead (1867); title: Gold and rose (1868-1869); title: Song of the shank (1869); title: Underground (return) (1869).