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