Diddy Wah Diddy: A Beale Street Suite (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780988732858)

Fiction. Music. DIDDY-WAH-DIDDY: A BEALE STREET SUITE is a crazy-quilt mosaic about a near-mythical place located, concretely, in Memphis, Tennessee, and abstractly somewhere on the road between Rapture and Perdition. The novel is a-historic, preferring the beautiful lie to the truth as plain as a mud fence. The novel, if we can call it a novel (and we can), is peopled with musicians, conmen, strippers, magi, foreigners, storytellers, ghosts, villains, heroes, fairy-tale sons of Adam like Elvis and Santa Claus, and the imps of the perverse. Told in myriad ways, including short stories, plays, and poems, the song Diddy Wah Diddy moves from Creation to Revelation and, in the end, emerges from the smoke and circus mirrors, to stand naked under the bright, bluesy Beale Street sun.

Author: Corey Mesler
ISBN-10: 0988732858
ISBN-13: 9780988732858
Publisher: Ampersand Books
Language: English
Published: 09/25/2013
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d