Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
- ISBN-10
- 1849838313
- ISBN-13
- 9781849838313
- Series
- Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-09-29
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- William Kennedy
Description
When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins William Kennedy's latest novel -- a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro. Quinn's epic journey carries him through the night clubs and jungles of Cuba and into the newsrooms and racially charged streets of Albanny on he day Robert Kennedy is fatally shot in 1968.
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