The seven league boots
a novel
1st ed.
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Word Count
92,250 words, Guess
Page Count
369 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1271398M
- ISBN-100679439862
- OCLC Control Number31937942
- OCLC Control Numbersevenleagueboots00murr
- Library of Congress Control Number95002622
and 2 more
- LibraryThing809081
- Goodreads3130665
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3563.U764 S48 1995
Description
The Seven League Boots tells the story of Scooter, a recent graduate from an Alabama college during the Swing Era, who is hired as a temporary bass player in the traveling band of the legendary jazz musician and composer Bossman (the "Emperor of Syncopation"), and of Scooter's maturation in the decades that follow. As Bossman and the band (including Joe States, Old Pro, Big Bloop, and Osceola Menefee) chart new territory across the country, the tour becomes a heroic journey - "equivalent to the seven league stride of the heroes in rocking chair story times"retracing Sherman's march to the sea, the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, the Gold Rush, and the conquest of the West. Lyrical and engaging, The Seven League Boots brilliantly dramatizes what it means for a contemporary American to survive and thrive through joy and sorrow by virtue of improvisation and style.
Subjects
Genres
- Fiction.
Other Editions
- The seven league boots: a novel
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