Nighthawk Blues

New York: Seaview Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1980). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [nice tight clean copy, with just a touch of wear to the lower tips; the jacket shows only light handling wear, would rate higher but for the price-clipping] The first (and so far only) novel by this acclaimed music historian/critic/biographer, about "an aging Delta blues singer, who (like Son House and Mississippi John Hurt) was rediscovered by a new generation of fans in the sixties." His young white manager strives to preserve his heroic image as a living musical legend, but must also contend with the man as he is: "a cantankerous old man awash in memories of over half a century of living and of music," and who "barely tolerates the ministrations of his nursemaid manager." .