Driving the King (ePub)
Montgomery, Alabama, December 1945. War hero Nat Weary has returned to his hometown, eager to rebuild his life. His childhood friend, the famous Nat King Cole, is also home for a rare performance. During the concert, Weary plans to propose to his...
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Montgomery, Alabama, December 1945. War hero Nat Weary has returned to his hometown, eager to rebuild his life. His childhood friend, the famous Nat King Cole, is also home for a rare performance. During the concert, Weary plans to propose to his sweetheart, and Cole will serenade them with a song.
But Weary's dreams for the future are destroyed when a white man, armed with a pipe, rushes the stage. Leaping from the audience, the former soldier stops the assailantan act of bravery that leads to ten years of hard labor in prison.
Free at last a decade later, Weary heads to Los Angeles to work for his old friend. It is the promise of a new life removed from the violence and degradation of Jim Crow Alabama. But he discovers that even in the City of Angels, wealth, popularity, and talent cannot protect a black man from discrimination and hate.
Drawn back to Montgomery to lay some unfinished business to rest, Cole and Weary discover a city in the midst of change. A woman named Rosa Parks has inspired blacks to boycott the city's busesa daring fight for dignity and rights that will eventually grip the entire nation.
A moving tale about bigotry and the power of friendship. People
Heartbreaking. . . . A bold reimagining of [the] civil rights era. Los Angeles Times
- Autor: Ravi Howard
- 2024, 341 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Harper Collins
- ISBN-10: 0062199153
- ISBN-13: 9780062199157
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.01.2024
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- Größe: 0.37 MB
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