It is 1967. There's a war going on in Vietnam. In rural Heywood, Massachusetts, white men are playing the blues and eighteen-year-old Leo Suther is writing clumsy love songs to his girlfriend Allie Donovan. Leo has no intention if going off to war. He has big plans for his life with Allie. Though it's summer vacation now, there is no shortage of teachers for Leo. His father warns him that "life can turn on a dime". His jamming partners introduce him to the beauty of the blues harp. Allie's father, the local communist and ...
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It is 1967. There's a war going on in Vietnam. In rural Heywood, Massachusetts, white men are playing the blues and eighteen-year-old Leo Suther is writing clumsy love songs to his girlfriend Allie Donovan. Leo has no intention if going off to war. He has big plans for his life with Allie. Though it's summer vacation now, there is no shortage of teachers for Leo. His father warns him that "life can turn on a dime". His jamming partners introduce him to the beauty of the blues harp. Allie's father, the local communist and civil rights organiser, lectures him on politics. And, of course, Allie herself has much to teach him. However, when Leo's life threatens to come unglued, it is his mother's wisdom he turns to. Though she died before Leo was five, her voice lives on in her diaries and poems, testifying to the strength of her love for her husband and son - a love that can still, years later, offer consolation. In Bluesman Andre Dubus III has written a novel of great warmth that evokes a time when America itself was coming of age, a novel that shows the same powerful understanding of humanity and the ways that human beings can misunderstand each other as his extraordinary novel House of Sand and Fog.
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