Clyde Edgerton is as much an anthropologist as he is a novelist, and his specialty is rural North Carolina of the 1950s, ?60s and ?70s. Future historians can study Edgerton?s body of work for what he does best: capturing that elusive sense of place and people in the context of a 20th-century era.
In ?The Night Train,? Edgerton?s 10th novel, the place is Starke, N.C., the time is 1963, and the people are (mostly) teenagers, black and white, who love music. Larry Lime, a 16-year-old African American, is taken under the wing of a musician known as The Bleeder (he?s a hemophiliac), from whom he learns how to play jazz piano and is introduced to the world of soul. Dwayne Hallston, Larry?s white friend, plays guitar and is hoping he?ll get to perform with his rhythm-and-blues band on a local TV show, ?The Brother Bobby Lee Reese Country Music Jamboree,? which has figured out how to attract white and black viewers.
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