Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales

"While Wanda Coleman is widely acknowledged as the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles, her lesser-known fiction is every bit as powerful as her electrifying verse. This collection of thirteen new short stories is no exception, set in the landscape Coleman has made her own - the neighborhoods, nightclubs, and city streets of Los Angeles, from Hollywood to South Central to Venice Beach." "The stories by this "L.A. Blueswoman," as she has come to be known, are the prosaic equivalents of modal jazz, rich with dissonance and seeking resolution, kind of blue, always bewitching. Like the heartbroken lover in Billy Strayhorn's song "Lush Life," to which the book owes its title, the characters in these stories lead lonely lives full of longing, of potential stifled by racism, poverty, and absurd accidents of fate."--BOOK JACKET.Coleman, Wanda is the author of 'Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales', published 2008 under ISBN 9781574232127 and ISBN 1574232126.