cover image Nighthawk Blues

Nighthawk Blues

Peter Guralnick. Thunder's Mouth Press, $9.94 (244pp) ISBN 978-0-938410-64-5

This is the story of Theodore Roosevelt Jefferson, known professionally as the Screaming Nighthawk, a guitarist and blues singer who is growing old with the century. PW found that ``the novel catches very honestly the unique flavor of a black musician's life, a kind of melancholy swan song.'' (October)