{"product_id":"clarence-major-dirty-bird-blues-2022-paperback","title":"Clarence Major: Dirty Bird Blues [2022] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e  A pulsating, powerful tale of the blues, from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is Chicago in the 1950s and Manfred Banks has the Dirty Bird Blues. A musician and a blue-collar worker, he feels hard the tug of his two responsibilities: those to his wife and child, and those to rhythm and rhyme, to the lyrics that groove a hollow in his mind. Beneath both is the awful grinding racism Manfred meets on streets each day; that which plucks opportunity from his grasp; that which keeps him wandering in search of fresh starts. And so, in want of easy answers, he turns to the 'Dirty Bird': Old Crow brand whiskey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Clarence Major's most influential novels, \u003ci\u003eDirty Bird Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is both an extraordinary portrayal of twentieth-century Black reality, and an ode to the richness and power of the blues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Major, Clarence \u0026 Komunyakaa, Yusef","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50987059708243,"sku":"9780143136590","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/major-clarence-komunyakaa-yusef-clarence-major-dirty-bird-blues-2022-paperback-9780143136590-1167105614.jpg?v=1747353695","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/clarence-major-dirty-bird-blues-2022-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}