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In the final volume in the autobiographical adventures of Scooter, which include Train Whistle Guitar, The Spyglass Tree, and The Seven League Boots, Scooter, recently married and an NYU grad student, sets out to uncover the roots of his destined greatness, making his way through the colorful streets of Manhattan on a quest that leads him back to Alabama. 10,000 first printing.
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"Impressive. . . . [Aslam's] prose is stylistically dazzling. . . . His characters' inner lives are explored in-depth, flaws and all. . . . A novel as affecting as it is provocative."-Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Extraordinary. . . . It deepens our knowledge of life. . . . Aslam has created a novel which-grave yet exultant, brutal but compassionate-achieves its complex humanity, and its final affirmations of love and beauty, through a real reckoning with despair and heartbreak."- The New York Review of Books "Artful . . . and heartbreaking. . . . [Aslam's] prose is richly atmospheric, his tone engagingly introspective."-The New York Times Book Review "A writer's tour de force. . . . Powerful."-San Francisco ChronicleAbout the Author
Albert Murray was born in Nokomis, Alabama, in 1916. He grew up in Mobile and was educated at Tuskegee Institute, where he later taught literature and directed the college theater. He is a retired U.S. Air Force major. Albert Murray is author of The Omni-Americans; Stomping the Blues; The Hero and the Blues; Train Whistle Guitar; The Spyglass Tree; The Seven League Boots; South to a Very Old Place; Conjugations and Reiterations; and From the Briarpatch File; as well as co-author of Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie and Trading Twelves The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray. He lives in New York City.
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