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Train Whistle Guitar (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
Train Whistle Guitar - Northeastern Library of Black Literature Author:Albert Murray This remarkable novel about coming of age in the South in the 1920s resonates with the cadences and idioms of African-American speech and music. Train Whistle Guitar is a deceptively gentle account of the adolescence of a boy named Scooter who gets his education listening to adults in the barbershop, at the lunch counter, and along the ... more »railroad tracks of Gasoline Point, Alabama. Rooted in the folklore of black culture and informed by the author's consummate knowledge of the blues, it is a joy to read.
With a new foreword by Robert G. O'Meally. Cover illustration by Michael McCurdy.« less