The Ragtime Fool

by Karp, Larry

• ISBN13: 9781590586990
• ISBN10: 1590586999
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Pr

Summary

It's 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback. In Sedalia, Missouri, plans are well along for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin. Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, is working to establish Joplin's legacy. Brun learns of a journal Joplin kept and wants to show it to Sedalia's movers and shakers, hoping to persuade them to set up a ragtime museum. Unfortunately for Brun, author/historian Rudi Blesh is determined to publish the journal. Also, Joplin's old friend wants to suppress the material. Even worse, two Sedalia Klansmen are hot after the journal, and don't care if they have to kill someone to get it. What's one murder, compared to the Klansmen's grand plan to blow up the high school auditorium with its integrated audience during the ceremony? In the middle of this imbroglio is Alan Chandler, a 17-year-old pianist in love with ragtime. If Alan can stay alive, he may be able to prevent catastrophe and learn what it really means to be Black in mid-Twentieth Century America.

Author Biography

Larry has written long and short nonfiction, practiced perinatal medicine, and restored and collected antique music boxes. He and his wife have lived in Seattle for thirty years and counting. They have two grown children.

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