Screamin' Jay Hawkins' all-time greatest hits
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mark Binelli
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781627795357
Subjects: African American musicians; Fiction
Other titles: Screaming Jay Hawkins' all-time greatest hits
Description: "The R & B wildman Screamin' Jay Hawkins only had a single hit, the classic "I Put a Spell On You," and was often written off as a clownish novelty act -- or worse, an offense to his race -- but his myth-making was legendary. In [this] novel, Mark Binelli embraces the man and the legend to create a hilarious, tragic, fantastical portrait of this unlikeliest of protagonists. Hawkins saw his life story as a wild picaresque, and Binelli's novel follows suit, tackling the subject in a dazzling collage-like style."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 203).