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Louis, a Jewish conman in 1948, navigates the treacherous waters of jazz, women, passion and cynicism.
The Toby Press
October 2008
On Sale: October 1, 2008
Featuring: Louis Greenberg
350 pages
ISBN: 1592642411
EAN: 9781592642410
Hardcover
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From the black jazz clubs on Central Avenue in Watts, to the
tidy homes of the war widows he cons, Louis Greenberg lives
life on the outside. No matter how charming and passionate
he is, an outsider he will always be. He is white, a Jew,
and that never goes away. It is 1948. An impulsive, irrevocable decision has led to
Louis' permanent exile from his family back in New York. Six
years later, his father's disappointment still haunts him.
Living a fractured, confusing life in Los Angeles, Louis
moves between worlds. By day he is a c-man, artfully conning
the relatives of men killed in action in World War II out of
their cash, preying upon their memories and pain. By night
he enters the only world where he is truly alive. In the
all-black underground clubs of L.A. he nurtures his passion
for bebop, listening to and playing cutting-edge jazz. Here
he is still an outsider, but he has won acceptance-to a
point. Here, he meets the woman he loves, but can never
truly have, in the segregated world of the forties. As Louis navigates the treacherous waters of jazz and women,
passion and cynicism, he will try for one big con to put his
troubled life to rights -but the many dissonant threads of
past and present will come together, ensnaring him in a web
of his own making.
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