Loose Jam

by Wayne Wilson

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385297882
• ISBN13: 9780385297882
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Loose Jam: The Chaos We Fear and the Chaos We Need

Rave! Henry Brown, ex-jazzman Vietnam vet, was managing a record store, trying to win sweet whiskey-drinking Martha and gaining a toehold in the middle-class; but when he "...saw the one-legged man coming up the dirt road from the highway his thoughts scattered like startled birds." Henry's old bandleader and Vietnam buddy Miles Duckworth arrives, pursued by the "Policy Man", desparate for help. The moral claim Miles makes on Henry destroys his well-ordered life and draws him back into the unfinished battles of his past. A page-turner, the book hurtles toward an apocalypic conclusion. Loose Jam is powerful, visionary writing that can stand, with books like Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers, among the finest post-Vietnam literature. Wilson's experience is deep, awesome and a bit frightening. It is my sincere hope that, following the publication of Wilson's important new novel Eddie and Bella, readers, hungry for more will seek out Loose Jam and it will win the wide audience it so richly deserves.