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Song of the shank : a novel / Jeffery Renard Allen.

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"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 bla...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Blind Tom, > 1849-1908 > Fiction.
Blind Tom, > 1849-1908 > Childhood and youth > Fiction.
African American musicians > Fiction.
Pianists > United States > Fiction.
Blind musicians > United States > Fiction.
Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Exploitation > Fiction.
Blind Tom, > 1849-1908.
African American musicians.
Blind musicians.
Exploitation.
Mothers and sons.
Pianists.
Slavery.
United States.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
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Summary:"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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (570 pages : illustrations, map)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-570)

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