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The Supremes sing the happy heartache blues : a novel
- Title
- The Supremes sing the happy heartache blues : a novel / Edward Kelsey Moore.
- Author
- Moore, Edward Kelsey
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- 299 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness. When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club's parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend to town. Mr. El Walker, the great guitar bluesman, comes home to give a command performance in Plainview, Indiana, a place he'd sworn--and for good reason--he'd never set foot in again. But El is not the only Plainview native with a hurdle to overcome. A wildly philandering husband struggles at last to prove his faithfulness to the wife he's always loved. A young transwoman lights out for show biz and Chicago to escape her father's wrath and live an authentic life. And among those in this tightly knit community who show up every Sunday after church for lunch at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, are the lifelong friends, known locally as "The Supremes"--Clarice, facing down her longing for, chance at and fear of a great career; Barbara Jean, grappling at last with the loss of a mother whose life humiliated both of them, and Odette, reaching toward her husband through an anger of his that she does not understand. Ed Moore's lively cast of characters, each of whom have surmounted serious trouble and come into love, need not learn how to survive but how, fully, to live. And they do, every one of them, serenaded by the bittersweet and unforgettable blues song El Walker plays, born of his own great loss and love"--
- Series Statement
- Supremes ;, The ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Supremes ; 2.
- Subject
- Man-woman relationships > Fiction
- Loss (Psychology) > Fiction
- Blues musicians > Fiction
- African American women > Fiction
- Female friendship > Fiction
- Diners (Restaurants) > Fiction
- Life change events > Fiction
- African American women
- Blues musicians
- Diners (Restaurants)
- Female friendship
- Life change events
- Loss (Psychology)
- Man-woman relationships
- Indiana > Fiction
- Indiana
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- Subtitle from cover.
- Sequel to: The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-153
- ISBN
- 9781250107947
- 1250107946
- 9781250107923 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016048172
- OCLC
- 958350911
- Author
- Moore, Edward Kelsey, author.
- Title
- The Supremes sing the happy heartache blues : a novel / Edward Kelsey Moore.
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Supremes ;, The ; 2Supremes ; 2.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-153