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CHANGO'S BEADS AND TWO TONE SHOES by William Kennedy - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by William Kennedy.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of
love and revolution from one of America's finest writers.
When
journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in
Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple,
declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight.
So
begins William Kennedy's latest novel-a tale of revolutionary intrigue,
heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany
race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro. Quinn's epic
journey carries him through the nightclubs and jungles of Cuba and into
the newsrooms and racially charged streets of Albany on the day Robert
Kennedy is fatally shot in 1968. The odyssey brings Quinn, and his
exotic but unpredictable Cuban wife, Renata, a debutante revolutionary,
face-to-face with the darkest facets of human nature and illuminates the
power of love in the presence of death.
Kennedy masterfully
gathers together an unlikely cast of vivid characters in a breathtaking
adventure full of music, mysticism, and murder-a homeless black
alcoholic, a radical Catholic priest, a senile parent, a terminally ill
jazz legend, the imperious mayor of Albany, Bing Crosby, Hemingway,
Castro, and a ragtag ensemble of radicals, prostitutes, provocateurs,
and underworld heavies. This is an unforgettably riotous story of
revolution, romance, and redemption, set against the landscape of the
civil rights movement as it challenges the legendary and vengeful Albany
political machine.
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