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Author:

Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962-, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Graywolf Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

570 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Subject:

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.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-570).

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.

ISBN:

9781555976804 (paperback)
1555976808 (paperback) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)857967485

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

CWPB586 -- Mellinger Memorial Library (Morning Sun)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

WXPD305 -- Spirit Lake Public Library (Spirit Lake)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)