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Author Bryce, Denny S., author.

Title Wild women and the blues / Denny S. Bryce.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2021]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F BRYCE, D.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION BRYCE    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  F BRYCE, D.    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F BRYCE    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC BRYCE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION BRYCE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F BRYCE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Adult Fiction  BRYCE, DENNY S.    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  F BRYCE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC BRYCE, D    Check Shelf

Description 377 pages ; 21 cm
Summary In an award-winning debut novel, a sharecropper's daughter navigates celebrity encounters, bootlegging and gangster activities in Jazz Age Chicago before sharing her story with a grieving film student nearly a century later.
Note Includes an excerpt from Blackbirds.
Includes a reading group guide.
Summary 1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour, a sharecropper's daughter, is willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the top. She's socializing with celebrities, but with the temptations of bootleg whiskey, gambling, and gangsters a young woman driven by ambition might risk more than she can stand to lose. 2015: Film student Sawyer Hayes arrives at the bedside of 110-year-old Honoree Dalcour. He has rested all his hope on this frail but formidable woman, the only living link to the legendary Oscar Micheaux. If she can fill in the blanks in his research, perhaps he can complete his thesis and begin a new chapter in his life. As Honoree reveals her past and her secrets, Sawyer fights tooth and nail to keep his. -- adapted from back cover
Subject African Americans -- Fiction.
Women dancers -- Fiction.
Nightclubs -- Fiction.
Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9781496730084 (pbk.)
1496730089 (pbk.)
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