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Synopsis
In 1959, two brothers in Alabama are swimming in a pond when a fireball hits the water and they become fused together. When a New Orleans doctor claims he can help, they travel throughout the Southeast playing music. What they discover is as astonishing as their condition. An entertaining and informative trek through Southern Americana, including race relations, jazz, rock and roll, con-artists, the Red Scare, and the just blooming space race.
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About the Author
M. David Hornbuckle lives in Birmingham, Alabama where he teaches English at the local university. Over the years, his career has included journalism, technical writing, and bee farming. He is also a musician, most known for his former bands PopCanon and the M. David Hornbuckle Dixieland Space Orchestra. In addition, Hornbuckle is the founding editor of Steel Toe Review: A Journal of Southern Arts and Literature. This is his third book.
Review
Near the opening of this novel, Hornbuckle embeds the story in a specific time in American history, referring to the 1959 Communist paranoia, Elvis-mania, and the progress of the civil rights movement in a laconic line: it had been a summer of reds and a summer of blues and a summer of blacks. This phrase also subtly and powerfully hints at the opposing forces that shape the novel s overarching narrative a fear of otherness, and a love of music. Unable to engage in farm work, Wally, a keen fiddle player, teaches his nonmusical brother to play, and the family takes to the road as mendicant musicians. Hornbuckles description of the learning process is both tender and unsettling: [Robert] could feel the hand on his chest, Wally s fingering hand, itching to form into the correct positions, unable to curve...he could even sense which finger Wally wanted to use on the fingerboard, and this helped him sometimes find the spot. Indeed, he s an alarmingly talented writer, who s able to vividly communicate the wide spectrum of sensations and emotions from intimacy to awkwardness to sheer frustration that spring from the boys situation. He also seemingly effortlessly captures the atmosphere, pace, and cuisine of the American South, and shows an acute understanding of the political mood, resulting in an engrossing novel. Readers who prefer stories that tie up every loose end in the denouement will be left wanting more but otherwise, they will find this one to be a rare and peculiar gem. An impressively written tale that s layered with intrigue. --Kirkus Indie Review
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- PublisherLivingston Pr
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1604892285
- ISBN 13 9781604892284
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages208
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