Dirty Bird Blues

✍ Scribed by Clarence Major; Yusef Komunyakaa; John Beckman

• Book ID: 110639041
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 551 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780525508090

✦ Synopsis

A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with thetwenty-fifth-anniversary** edition of Dirty Bird Blues**

The PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022 EARPHONE AWARD. Narrated by Dion Graham.

A Penguin Classic
Set in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica-blowing blues singer who is always writing music in his head. Torn between his friendships with fellow musicians and nightclub life and his responsibilities to his wife and child, along with the pressures of dealing with a racist America that assaults him at every turn, Manfred seeks easy answers in "Dirty Bird" (Old Crow whiskey) and in moving on. He moves to Omaha with hopes of better opportunities as a blue-collar worker, but the blues in his soul and the dreams in his mind keep bringing him back to face himself. After a...