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Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories Audiobook
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Exploring the diverse landscape of American life, the stories in Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories capture the lives of people caught between circumstance and their own natures or on the run from fate—from a Jewish couple encountering a dealer in Nazi memorabilia to the troubled family of a Gulf Coast fisherman awaiting a hurricane.
Tom Piazza’s debut short story collection, originally published in 1996, heralded the arrival of a startlingly original and vital presence in American fiction and letters. Set in Memphis, New Orleans, Florida, Texas, New York City, and elsewhere, the stories echo voices from Ernest Hemingway to Robert Johnson in their sharp eye for detail and their emotional impact
New to this volume is an introduction written by the author. Drawing themes, forms, and stylistic approaches from blues and country music, these stories present a tough, haunting vision of a landscape where the social and spiritual ground shifts constantly underfoot.
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“Characters tend to be outsiders, often on the run, sometimes from failed relationships. Sometimes, too, the most enduring relationships are also the most unlikely.”
— Booklist
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“Tom’s stories…pulsate with nervous electrical tension, reveal the emotions that we can’t define.”
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“Tom Piazza’s writing is filled with energy and tender, insightful words for the brilliant and irascible.”
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“In a few notes he can summon up a character’s voice or create a locale: a New Orleans cafe, a New York music company, a Gulf Coast fishing port.”
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“Told in a clear tenor voice, Piazza’s first collection is as wonderfully dislocating as an all-night drive.”
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“Kin to everyone from Huck Finn to Jack Kerouac and blues guitarist Robert Johnson…Piazza’s book revives the essence of the short story.”
— Library Journal
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About Tom Piazza
Tom Piazza is celebrated both as a novelist and as a writer on American music. His twelve books include the novels A Free State and City of Refuge, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, and Devil Sent the Rain, a collection of his essays and journalism. He was a principal writer for the innovative HBO drama series Treme, a four-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing, and the winner of a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he lives in New Orleans, where he is at work on a new novel.