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Article: Novelist switches gears with entertaining road novel.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 4, 2002
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Byline: Sudip Bose, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Madison Smartt Bell is in the midst of writing a sweeping trilogy of novels set in 1790s Haiti, in the time of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the slave uprisings he led against the island's French colonial masters. His new work of fiction, however, a break from this massive and impressive undertaking, is quite a departure: a novel about a group of musicians specializing in blues and rock 'n' roll standards that travels from seedy bar to seedy bar, playing gig after gig, mainly in the American South.
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