The Night Train

by Clyde Edgerton

Book Overview

In 1963, at the age of 17, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. His band, the Amazing Rumblers, studies and rehearses Brown's Live at the Apollo album in the storage room of his father's shop in their small North Carolina town. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black friend Larry -- aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk -- apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. His mother hopes music will allow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316117617
• ISBN13: 9780316117616
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1"