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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857967485 Title: Song of the shank : a novel Author: Jeffery Renard Allen Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014] ©2014 ISBN/ISSN: 9781555976804 1555976808 OCLC:857967485

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Song of the shank : a novel

Author:	Jeffery Renard Allen
Publisher:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014] ©2014
Edition/Format:	Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page 4 of cover.
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Subjects	Blind Tom, -- 1849-1908 -- Fiction. Blind Tom, -- 1849-1908 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction. Andrae, A. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Biographical fiction Historical fiction Fiction
Named Person:	Blind Tom; Blind Tom; A Andrae; Blind Tom
Material Type:	Fiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Jeffery Renard Allen Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781555976804 1555976808
OCLC Number:	857967485
Description:	570 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Contents:	Traveling undergroun (1866) -- Moving house : three views of the city (1867) -- Bird that never alights on the trees (1849-1856) -- Rain storm (1854-1856) -- Voice of the waves (1856-1862) -- The celebration of the living who reflect upon the dead (1867) -- Gold and rose (1868-1869) -- Song of the shank (1869) -- Underground (return) (1869).
Responsibility:	Jeffery Renard Allen.
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"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page 4 of cover.

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