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The Ivory Coast

A Novel

The Ivory Coast( )
Author: Fleming, Charles
ISBN:978-0-312-27464-1
Publication Date:Feb 2002
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Imprint:Minotaur Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

It is 1955 in Las Vegas. Sammy and Satchmo are headlining the big hotels - where the casino operators and the color bar say a black man can't buy a drink or a meal or a room. Until now. The Chicago mob man Mo Weiner is bankrolling ex-boxer Worthless Worthington Lee and the city's first all-black hotel-casino. The Ivory Coast is rising up from the dust, on the wrong side of town. And out of the shadows steps Deacon, a white horn player with a dark past and a genius for jazz. Mo...
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Book Details
Pages:416
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / City Life
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.28 x 9.64 x 1.22 Inches
Book Weight:1.415 Pounds
Author Biography
Fleming, Charles (Author)
Charles Fleming is a former Newsweek writer living in Los Angeles.




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