The Night Train

The Night Train: Clyde Edgerton's Mix of Jazz, Soul, and Life on Both Sides of the Tracks "Ladies and Gentlemen, are YOU READY? LIVE FROM THE APOLLO, IT'S JAMES BROWN!!!" Clyde Edgerton I can't find Starke on any North Carolina map, anymore than I can find Listre on a map of that State. But Clyde E......more

Other than the fact that this book’s storyline was extremely difficult to follow, I was incredibly irritated the whole time that the author doesn’t use quotation marks for speech. I’ve NEVER seen an author make that choice before? Please someone help me understand why an author would do this other t......more

I was born and raised in the South. So, I am ashamed to admit that I had never heard of clyde Edgerton until Anna from Little Brown & Company contacted me about this book. I have since learned that not only is he Southern author, he is a great Southern Author that has many book credited to him! Howe......more

Not bad but not great. A good read for a long plane or bus ride. As with many novels by white people about black characters, the African Americans are unconvincingly one dimensional--in this case tending toward positive stereotype. The troubled politics of white appropriations of black musical cultu......more

I fell in love with Clyde Edgerton on reading 'The Floatplane Notebooks' and while I still love that book, I have not felt the same with any of his novels, ever since. This one is too little, no meat on its bones. It should have been a short story, maybe. I read it through because I was expecting........more