Diddy Wah Diddy: A Beale Street Suite

Fiction. Music. DIDDY-WAH-DIDDY: A BEALE STREET SUITE is a crazy-quilt mosaic about a near-mythical place located, concretely, in Memphis, Tennessee, and abstractly somewhere on the road between Rapture and Perdition. The novel is a-historic, preferring the beautiful lie to the truth as plain as a mud fence. The novel, if we can call it a novel (and we can), is peopled with musicians, conmen, strippers, magi, foreigners, storytellers, ghosts, villains, heroes, fairy-tale sons of Adam like Elvis and Santa Claus, and the imps of the perverse. Told in myriad ways, including short stories, plays, and poems, the song Diddy Wah Diddy moves from Creation to Revelation and, in the end, emerges from the smoke and circus mirrors, to stand naked under the bright, bluesy Beale Street sun.

Author: Corey Mesler
Publisher: Ampersand Books
Published: 09/25/2013
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780988732858

About the Author
Mesler, Corey: - Corey Mesler lives to write and writes to live. He has been called-but never to his face-a prophet. If he has seen farther than other men it is because he has stepped on the shoulders of anyone who gets in his way. All of his publishing credits he dedicates to his wife and two children, with the exception of the poem "Lungfish Melody," which he wrote out of a self-destructive desire to meet the actress Heather Graham. His books include DIDDY WAH DIDDY: A BEALE STREET SUITE (Ampersand Books, 2013), THE BALLAD OF THE TWO TOM MORES (Bronx River Press, 2010), and WE ARE BILLION YEAR OLD CARBON (Livingston Press, 2006).

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