Lonely Boy Blues - by Alan Kapelner (Paperback)

Lonely Boy Blues is a powerful and intense novel that captures the rhythms of jazz and bebop, telling the story of a dysfunctional family living in Brooklyn during World War 2.

With an expanded 75th-anniversary edition featuring new cover artwork and an interview with the author, this book is a must-read for fans of classic literature and those interested in the precursors to the Beat novels of the 1950s.

Legendary editor Maxwell Perkins praised Kapelner's unique talent and agreed to take on the editing of Lonely Boy Blues, which would be one of his last projects before his death in 1947.

Don't miss out on this unconventional and hard-hitting story that has been called "something different and something to remember."