Wild women and the blues
Bryce, Denny S.2021
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1925. Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour is a sharecropper's daughter, willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the top. Dreamland offers a path to the good life, socialising with celebrities like Louis Armstrong and filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. But Chicago is also awash in bootleg whiskey, gambling, and gangsters. And 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, still reeling from a devastating loss that has taken him right to the brink. Sawyer has rested all his hope on this frail but formidable woman, the only living link to the legendary Oscar Micheaux. If he's right - if she can fill in the blanks in his research, perhaps he can complete his thesis and begin a new chapter in his life.
Main title:
Wild women and the blues / Denny S. Bryce.
Author:
Bryce, Denny S., author
Edition:
Large Print Edition
Imprint:
Rearsby : W. F. Howes Ltd., 2021.
Collation:
498 pages (large print)
ISBN:
9781004042531 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Local class:
LPFICFIC LPF
Language:
English
BRN:
2879013