The Seven League Boots

The Seven League Boots

by Albert Murray
The Seven League Boots

The Seven League Boots

by Albert Murray

Paperback(Reprint)

$16.95 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
    Choose Expedited Shipping at checkout for delivery by Thursday, April 4
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores

Related collections and offers


Overview

In the triumphant concluding volume of the trilogy that began with Whistle Guitar and The Spyglass Tree, Albert Murray gives us what is at once an African American coming-of-age novel and a pitch-perfect evocation of a touring jazz band at the height of the Swing era. Murray's hero, Scooter, graduates from an Alabama college and becomes a bass player in an ensemble headed by the legendary Bossman. As Scooter criss-crosses the United States, he and his bandmates find themselves retracing Sherman's march to the sea, the Underground Railroad, and the conquest of the West. The Seven League Boots is nothing less than a jazz epic, so vivid, high-spirited, and infectious that readers will tap their feet to the music of its prose.



"A work of joy, of celebration...a great work of art, a rich and moving song of the human spirit."—Los Angeles Times


"A fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition."—Washington Post Book World

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780679758587
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/04/1997
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Albert Murray is the author of The Omni-Americans, Stomping the Blues, The Hero and the Blues, South to a Very Old Place, Conjugations and Reiterations, and From the Briarpatch File. He is the coauthor of Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie and the coeditor of Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray. He lives in New York City.
From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews