Straight, No Chaser
Subtitle: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk
Publisher: Schirmer Books
Published: October 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780028650326
First sentence: Barbara Batts Monk was tired of crossing the railroad tracks every day from her little house on Red Row, the "colored" side of town, to the houses where she worked as a maid for white people in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.