Angel's Flight: 10 - Brossura

Cameron, Lou

Brossura

ISBN 10: 194452018X ISBN 13: 9781944520182

Casa editrice: Stark House Pr, 2017

Riassunto

"The story begins in the Depression Era jazz world. What was called the Dirty Thirties, then moves to 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, then 1940 when FDR sends help to Churchill and England during The Battle of Britain and on to the close of World War Two, and later into the Korean War. However, this is not a war novel at all. Cameron only mentions these then current events through his narrator Ben Parker, to put this decades long saga of the music business into historical perspective. Cameron is telling a grand story, an epic of sorts — a noir horror tale set to a hot jazz beat."—from the introduction by Gary Lovisi

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Informazioni sull'autore

Lou Cameron was born in San Francisco on June 20, 1924 to a vaudeville comedian and his vocalist wife. After serving in the army during WWII, Cameron found work illustrating comics before turning to fiction writing in the late 1950s. He wrote a number of movie and TV novelizations, and in the late 1970s created the adult western hero, Longarm, which he wrote under the name Tabor Evans. He also penned the Renegade western series as Ramsay Thorne and the Stringer series under his own name, eventually winning the Golden Spur award for his western novel, The Spirit Horses. Cameron wrote an estimate of over 300 novels before he passed away in New York City on November 25, 2010. Angel s Flight was his first published novel.

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The first time Ben Parker meets Johnny Angel, Ben is blowing bass with Daddy Halloway and the Hot Babies. Angel angles into the band by acing out the drummer. Parker s got a bad feeling about Angel, but has to hire him anyway. Johnny Angel, raised from the school of hard knocks, doesn t let anyone or any scruple get in his way. First, he steals Daddy s band, then he steals his daughter, Blanche. Then WWII happens Parker serves, but Johnny cops a gay plea and gets out. When Parker gets back he hooks up with a talented but tubercular composer named Con Conners. And a sultry singer, Ginger. But Johnny Angel is right behind him, ready to do whatever it takes to climb to the top on someone else s talent, be it beg, borrow or steal... even kill. This is the ruthless story of the music business told from the inside, starting from the days of swing jazz to bebop, all the way to rock n roll.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Stark House Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 194452018X
• ISBN 13: 9781944520182
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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