Drop of Patience

by William Melvin Kelley

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At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for eleven years, until his prodigious musical talent provides him an unlikely ticket back into the world.

The property of a band, playing for down-and-outs in a southern dive, Ludlow's pioneering flair will take him to New York and the very top of the jazz scene - where his personal demons will threaten to drag him back down to the bottom.

A Drop of Patience is the story of a gifted and damaged man entirely set apart - by blindness, by race, by talent - who must wrestle with adversity and ambition to generate the acceptance and self-worth that have always eluded him.

  • ISBN10 0911860266
  • ISBN13 9780911860269
  • Publish Date 1 December 1973
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 30 March 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Chatham Bookseller
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 237
  • Language English