Jazz breaking news: Man Booker Prize Nominee Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues Evokes The Spirit Of Jazz

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan is the most substantial work of fiction to incorporate successfully jazz within its pages since Rafi Zabor’s The Bear Comes Home and is, in many ways, a more ambitious work than Zabor's ursine novel which won the 1998 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in the US and deservedly so.

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