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The Ivory Coast: A Novel
The Ivory Coast A Novel
Author: Charles Fleming
It is 1955 in Las Vegas, and the Chicago mob man Mo Weiner is bankrolling ex-boxer Worthless Worthington Lee and the city's first all-black hotel-casino. The Ivory Coast is rising up from the dust, on the wrong side of town. And out of the shadows steps Deacon, a white horn player with a dark past and a genius for jazz. Mo mistakes him for a hit...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312422141
ISBN-10: 0312422148
Publication Date: 1/1/2004
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A book picked up on a whim from reading the hightlights, which turned out to be a great story that provided a first rate reading experience. This is the authors first fictional novel after co-authoring some non fiction titles, which frankly I've never read. I'm glad I got this book. His follow up to this title is "After Havana" which follows the horn playing character Deacon from "The Ivory Coast's" 1955 Las Vegas, with all of its unique atmosphere (given the story), to the 1958 "After Havana" Cuba and all of its turbulent atmosphere. I don't believe Fleming has written any other fiction since so I highly recommend them, and both are now in my personal library.


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