Читать книгу Don't Start Me Talkin' - Tom Williams - Страница 2

PRAISE FOR DON'T START ME TALKIN'

“Tom Williams’ Don’t Start Me Talking reminds me of why I started reading in the first place—to be enchanted, to be carried away from my world and dropped into a world more vivid and incandescent. Here is a heartfelt and irresistible novel about the Last True Delta Bluesman, Brother Ben, and his steadfast harp player, Silent Sam. Williams handles this ironic tale of the Blues, race, pretense, and life on the road, with intelligence, grace, and abiding tenderness. Read this remarkable and exhilarating novel, friend, and I promise you’ll start reading it slowly so it won’t ever end.”

—John Dufresne, author of No Regrets, Coyote

“A master storyteller, Tom Williams enters the living history of Delta Blues and emerges with his own thrilling tall tale, alive with American music, American legend, American heart.”

—Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

“Tom Williams writes like Paul Auster might if he were funnier or like Stanley Elkin might have if he'd ever been able to stop laughing. Darkly charming.”

—Steve Yarbrough, author of The Realm of Last Chances

“Tom Williams’ Don’t Start Me Talkin’ takes the wheel of a coffee-brown ’76 Fleetwood Brougham, settles you into its supple leather seats, and tours a world of fried meat and plush polyester through smoky juke joints—a must read for fans of low down sounds everywhere.”

—Preston Lauterbach, author of The Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll