Blues for Lilly - Werner J. Egli

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Résumé :
Clear as the night sky over the Rimrock's, the story of sixteen year-old Bradley Fletcher unfolds like a dark blanket hiding his past and his future. Bradley leaves a sleepy Texas town to see his grandmother Lilly in Memphis, Tennessee. Not knowing what to expect when he gets there, he finds himself in a crime story that happened long before he was born. Nobody and nothing will stop Bradley in his quest to find the brutal truth of what really happened when a young and beautiful white girl fell in love with a black blues musician in a time when black and White was not a matter of color... but of life or death.

Biographie:
Werner J. Egli is a Swiss writer who has lived in Tucson, Arizona and Canada for large parts of his life. In the late 1960's and early 1970's he crisscrossed America from Alaska to Guatemala. At his side was his trusted companion, a half Wolf called Dusty, and his girlfriend Paula. His road story Heul doch den Mond an - Howl at the Moon for young adults is considered as one of the finest books written on this subject, and is a Classic in European Literature. First released in 1982 by Bertelsmann/Random House, it is still in print and a bestseller for Kyrene-Literaturverlag. Egli has written more than sixty novels. Blues for Lilly is his second book translated into English. He lives near Z?rich, Switzerland, in Tucson, Arizona, and in Freudenstadt, Germany.