Kathleen George

Blues Walked In, The (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nineteen year-old Lena Horne is walking the last few blocks to her father's hotel in Pittsburgh's Hill District. Her chanced meeting with a Lebanese American girl, Marie David. sparks a relationship that will intertwine their lives forever. Lena will also meet Josiah Conner, a charismatic teenager who helps out at her father's hotel. Although the three are linked by a determination to be somebody, issues of race, class, family, and education threaten to disrupt their lives and the bonds between them. Years later, Josiah is arrested for the murder of a white man. Marie and Lena decide they must get Josiah out of prisonwhatever the personal cost.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822983439
• Artikelnr.: 53494814

Autorenporträt

Kathleen George is the author of The Johnstown Girls, a novel about the famous Johnstown flood. She has also written seven mysteries set in Pittsburgh: A Measure of Blood, Simple, The Odds, which was nominated for the Edgar® Award from the Mystery Writers of America, Hideout, Afterimage, Fallen, and Taken. George is also the author of the short story collection The Man in the Buick and editor of another collection, Pittsburgh Noir. She is a professor of theater arts and creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh.