Song of the shank, by Jeffery Renard Allen ; read by Kevin R. Free
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Song of the shank, by Jeffery Renard Allen ; read by Kevin R. Free
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eng
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fiction
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Song of the shank
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sound recording audiobook CD
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by Jeffery Renard Allen ; read by Kevin R. Free
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Griot audio
Summary
At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. In 1866, 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
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- Pianists -- United States -- Fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Blind Tom, 1849-1908 -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Historical fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Blind musicians -- United States -- Fiction
- Exploitation -- Fiction
- Blind Tom, 1849-1908 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction
- African American musicians -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
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- Subject11
- Pianists -- United States -- Fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Blind Tom, 1849-1908 -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Historical fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Blind musicians -- United States -- Fiction
- Exploitation -- Fiction
- Blind Tom, 1849-1908 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction
- African American musicians -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Content1
- Author1
- narrrator1