Then See If I Care: A Story about Bessie Smith (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781006351785)

David Crittendon's historic blues novella, THEN SEE IF I CARE: A Story About Bessie Smith, makes you feel her yearning down to your bones. This is no low-down, foot-dragging dirge. With prose that rings true to African American idiom yet resounds with Crittendon's singular poetic voice, THEN SEE IF I CARE is by turns defiant, bawdy, mocking, starkly bitter, and jubilant, initiating us into an encounter with the woman behind the legend.

Author: David Crittendon
ISBN-10: 1006351787
ISBN-13: 9781006351785
Publisher: Blurb
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2026
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d