Rookery Blues - Softcover

Hassler, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345406419 ISBN 13: 9780345406415

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 1996

Synopsis

A late sixties academic backwater until the Icejam Quintet is born, Rookery State College is touched by the great discontent sweeping the country, but the five musicians must struggle with their loyalties to school, town, family, and each other. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Jon Hassler was born in Minneapolis in 1933. He received degrees from St. John's University in Minnesota, where he is now an English teacher and writer-in-residence, and from the University of North Dakota. Jon Hassler is also the author of eight other widely acclaimed novels: Staggerford, Simon's Night, The Love Hunter, A Green Journey, Grand Opening, North of Hope, Dear James, and The Dean's List.
From the Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap:

ETTABLE . . . Hassler has skillfully encapsulated an entire world of humanity and emotion in one tiny town in northern Minnesota."
--San Diego Union-Tribune
Rookery State College in the late 1960s is an academic backwater if ever there was one. Then, one frigid afternoon, the Icejam Quintet is born. With Leland Edwards on piano, Neil Novotny on clarinet, Victor Dash on drums, and Connor on bass, the group comes together with the help of its muse, the lovely Peggy Benoit, who plays saxophone and sings. But soon isolated Rookery State will be touched by the great discontent sweeping the country. News of a salary freeze electrifies the rabble-rousing Victor, and the first labor union in the college's history comes noisily to campus. As a teachers' strike takes shape, threatening both the draft-dodging students and the complacent administration, the five musicians must struggle with their loyalties--to the school, the town, their families, and each other. . . .
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0345406419
• ISBN 13: 9780345406415
• Binding: Paperback