Music of the Swamp

<DIV><P><B>This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page. -<I>Southern Living</I></B><BR /><BR />Lewis Nordan's fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In <I>Music of the Swamp</I> he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy's utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin's world with dazzling clarity: the smells the tastes and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar somewhat bizarre Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: The Delta is filled up with death; but he also finds an endless supply of hope.<BR /><BR /><B>An ALA Notable Book</B><BR /><B>Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award</B></P></DIV>