# A Drop of Patience

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- Authors: [William Melvin Kelley](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-melvin-kelley)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-10-03

## Description

At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for eleven years, until his prodigious musical talent provides him an unlikely ticket back into the world. The property of a band, playing for down-and-outs in a southern dive, Ludlow's pioneering flair will take him to New York and the very top of the jazz scene - where his personal demons will threaten to drag him back down to the bottom. A Drop of Patience is the story of a gifted and damaged man entirely set apart - by blindness, by race, by talent - who must wrestle with adversity and ambition to generate the acceptance and self-worth that have always eluded him.

## Editions

### A Drop of Patience

- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-19-8489-931-6
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2020-06-30
- Language: en_US

### A Drop of Patience

- Publisher: riverrun
- ISBN: 978-17-8747-807-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2019-10-03
- Language: en_GB

### A Drop of Patience

- Publisher: riverrun
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8747-806-0
- Published: 2019-10-03
- Language: en_GB