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R L'S Dream
By Walter Mosley
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Soupspoon Wise is dying on the unforgiving streets of New York City, years and worlds away from the Mississippi delta, where he once jammed with blues legend Robert "RL" Johnson. It was an experience that burned indelibly into Soupspoon's soul -- never mind that they said RL's gift came from the Devil himself. Now it's Soupspoon's turn to strike a deal with a stranger. An alcoholic angel of mercy, Kiki Waters isn't much better off than Soupspoon, but she too is a child of the South, and knows its pull. And she is determined to let Soupspoon ride out the final notes of his haunting blues dream, to pour out the remarkable tale of what he's seen, where he's been -- and where he's going.

Winner of the 1996 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award in Fiction

Tom De Haven Entertainment Weekly Heart-stopping....a beautiful little masterpiece....a meditation on the history and meaning of the blues and, in its sorrowful lyric, virtually a blues song itself....Every part of this novel -- every page
-- comes alive.
Danielle Taylor-Guthrie Chicago Tribune Fans of Mosley's Easy Rawlins series will not be disappointed by RL's Dream....Mosley's sense of timing and mystery is as powerful as ever....Mosley is a master storyteller, and in RL's Dream the blues are real.
Fredric Koeppel Memphis Commercial Appeal You won't be prepared for the brilliance and adventuresome nature of RL's Dream....filled with reckless humor, sorrow and abandon that are as exhilarating as they are provocative.
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