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      Music of the Swamp

      by Lewis Nordan
      Published
      Sep 1991
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      224
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      "This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page." —Southern Living

      Lewis Nordan's fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy's utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin's world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: "The Delta is filled up with death"; but he also finds an endless supply of hope.

      An ALA Notable Book
      Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award

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      Jan 1992 Algonquin ISBN 1565120167
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