Overview
The second novel from the internationally acclaimed author of A Different Drummer
At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for eleven years, until his prodigious musical talent provides him an unlikely ticket back into the world.
The property of a band, playing for down-and-outs in a southern dive, Ludlow''s pioneering flair will take him to New York and the very top of the jazz scene - where his personal demons will threaten to drag him back down to the bottom.
A Drop of Patience is the story of a gifted and damaged man entirely set apart - by blindness, by race, by talent - who must wrestle with adversity and ambition to generate the acceptance and self-worth that have always eluded him.
- | Author: William Melvin Kelley
- | Publisher: Quercus Publishing
- | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2019
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781787478077
- | ISBN-10: 1787478076
