RL's DreamRL's Dream is a novel about the blues - the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy and how they sit in judgment on the American experience. In contemporary New York, aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise is alone, ill, and dying. He has played his music in a thousand bars, clubs, and juke joints, but never so memorably as the time he played with one Robert "RL" Johnson in the Mississippi delta. That brief, indelible encounter with the great genius of country blues haunts Soupspoon, much as Johnson himself is said to have been possessed by Satan. And so Soupspoon proceeds to tell his story to Kiki Waters, the young white woman who has taken him in, another refugee from a South she can neither deny nor escape. |
Contents
Section 1 | 13 |
Section 2 | 15 |
Section 3 | 26 |
Section 4 | 37 |
Section 5 | 41 |
Section 6 | 52 |
Section 7 | 71 |
Section 8 | 85 |
Section 14 | 150 |
Section 15 | 161 |
Section 16 | 170 |
Section 17 | 187 |
Section 18 | 198 |
Section 19 | 217 |
Section 20 | 227 |
Section 21 | 231 |
Section 9 | 94 |
Section 10 | 101 |
Section 11 | 122 |
Section 12 | 131 |
Section 13 | 145 |
Section 22 | 247 |
Section 23 | 251 |
Section 24 | 255 |
Section 25 | 265 |
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