# Music of the Swamp

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- Authors: [Lewis Nordan](https://www.bookquiver.com/lewis-nordan)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1992-01-09

## Description

“This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page.” —Southern LivingLewis Nordan’s fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy’s utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin’s world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: “The Delta is filled up with death”; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. An ALA Notable BookMississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award

## Editions

### Music of the Swamp

- Publisher: algonquin_books
- ISBN: 978-15-6512-016-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1992-01-09
- Language: en_GB