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Zustand: Good. Original silver lettered blue cloth, dust jacket, illustrated with (full page) colour photographs throughout, oblong (circa 23x33cm).; Slightly foxed on top.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed', 1st printing ; SIGNED presentation by author on half-title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville (1951-2020) ; 191 pages ; 18 cm ; ISBN 9780945575764, 0945575769 ; OCLC 23144113 ; LCCN 91007777 ; LOC No PS3564.O55 M8 1991 ; blue and wine-colored cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Music of the Swamp. focuses . 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. -- Source: Publisher ; Lewis Nordan was born in Forest, Mississippi on August 23, 1939. He received a bachelor's degree from Millsaps College, a master's degree from Mississippi State University, and a Ph.D. from Auburn University. He taught at the University of Arkansas and elsewhere before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. He retired from there in 2005. His first book, Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair, was published in 1983. His other works include Wolf Whistle, Lightning Song, Sugar among the Freaks, and Boy with Loaded Gun. He died due to complications of pneumonia on April 13, 2012 at the age of 72. ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.