Ricochet Blues

ISBN: 059567481X

Author: Smith, Don

Condition: New

Product Description With the Dust Bowl years steeped in recent memory, a blues loving black boy named Garth Washington comes of age in the sharecroppers community of Ricochet Louisiana with his guitar and harmonica playing best friend Ben Henry Johansson. The year his father dies Garth becomes intimately involved with Olivia Sumner the white daughter of an English bred plantation owner, but over the course of a short autumn season Olivia loses interest in the boy she first seduced on Crockets Creek. The following year Garths mother sells the familys small sharecrop-farm and he and Ben Henry move to Baton Rouge where they soon discover its no cakewalk jumpstarting a blues career in a town surrounded by the Mississippi River. Or is it? A young woman with the guitar playing fingers of a blues master breathes life back into the boys dreamsof getting happy rich singing the blues. In a fateful return trip to Ricochet, Garth finds himself in lovers arms with the talented girl from Baton Rouge. But the lovers are violently whisked away from each other by a crooked sheriff, hurtful parish judge and Olivia Sumners father, three men who create their own wicked style of Ricochet Blues. About the Author Don Smith lives in Maryland with his wife and daughter. Ricochet Blues is his first novel.