A Drop of Patience
Author(s): William Melvin Kelley
At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for eleven years, until his prodigious musical talent provides him an unlikely ticket back into the world.
The property of a band, playing for down-and-outs in a southern dive, Ludlow's pioneering flair will take him to New York and the very top of the jazz scene - where his personal demons will threaten to drag him back down to the bottom.
A Drop of Patience is the story a gifted and damaged man entirely set apart - by blindness, by race, by talent - who must wrestle with adversity and ambition to generate the acceptance and self-worth that have always eluded him.
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- : Quercus
- : Hachette Livre Australia
- : 0.25
- : 01 October 2019
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- : books
Special Fields
- : William Melvin Kelley
- : Paperback
- : 1907
- : English
- : 813/.5/4
- : 304