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Half Blood Blues
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Catherine Malcolm
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Half Blood Blues is riveting fiction. This edgy book won much critical acclaim including the 2011 Giller Prize.Edugyan deftly weaves flashbacks to the Jazz era. Black American jazzmen clubbed and created music in cities from Berlin to Paris before and during W.W.II. Hiero,'the kid,'lead horn, attracts the attention of Louis Armstrong and the resentment of narrator and bassist, Sid. Chip, their drummer,and guest diva, Delilah are both sly devils. These are the complex main characters. Period slang shines. Broad strokes of the desperate past feather artfully into Sid and Chip's present story. Esi Edugyan has chops!
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M Diane Rogers
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A painful, powerful story, beautifully written - all the characters are tied to an often forgotten historical situation. This was the best book I read in 2012 - and one of the last.
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