{"product_id":"books-dirty-bird-blues-by-clarence-major","title":"Dirty Bird Blues","description":"A pulsating, powerful tale of the blues, from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century  It is Chicago in the 1950s and Manfred Banks has the Dirty Bird Blues. A musician and a blue-collar worker, he feels hard the tug of his two responsibilities: those to his wife and child, and those to rhythm and rhyme, to the lyrics that groove a hollow in his mind. Beneath both is the awful grinding racism Manfred meets on streets each day; that which plucks opportunity from his grasp; that which keeps him wandering in search of fresh starts. And so, in want of easy answers, he turns to the 'Dirty Bird': Old Crow brand whiskey.  One of Clarence Major's most influential novels, Dirty Bird Blues is both an extraordinary portrayal of twentieth-century Black reality, and an ode to the richness and power of the blues.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53509770641681,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780143136590.jpg?v=1778167160","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-dirty-bird-blues-by-clarence-major","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}