Hang Up the Fiddle
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City New york
Published: 1945
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Description: Hang up the fiddle...
Peter would never forget that. It was a line from a song that Duffy Skinner had loved to sing. Duffy had been an outlaw's son then, with a wistful toughness and a clear, effortless voice, and Pete had been a preacher's kid, a lonely boy in a small , ingrown Nebraska town. The preacher's kid who wanted to be a crusading reporter and the wiry, ragged vagabond who wanted to be a singer, both in a sense outcasts, were thrown together and became inseparable.
Duffy had been defeated by a world too quick to judge. Peter had become a newspaperman, a part-time reporter...and his first big story was about Duffy.

Frederic Babcock has written a nostalgic novel about a small Nebraska town in the years before World War I. He has told the story of a friendship put to the test, a friendship balanced in the hands of a young reporter who had once before unwittingly betrayed it.