American Blues (Hardcover)

The Blues are rooted in the American mind and soul. Each era has its own, and each is both the same and different, just like the people who know them, and play them, and live them. Here are five powerful stories exploring that mind and soul as they've evolved over the last seventy years. Sonny's Blues - A dying musician makes through his last days, through fragments of the past and present, always with the music playing. Tio's Blues - Two social misfits and the violence resulting from their trust and need for love. Nighthawks - Four nighthawks confront each other in a racially charged story set in the late-night diner. Animation - The comic, poignant story of a man in search of the meaning of his life - and of life itself. And a job. The Easy Lovin' Blues - A young woman connects two triangular relationships, one between her mother and her mother's manipulative, young would be lover; the other between an aging trumpet player and his lover, a dominating and disturbed blues singer.