The boy who was saved by jazz : a novel
Set in the Canadian prairies during the uptight 50s and swinging 60s, The Boy Who Was Saved By Jazz is the coming-of-age story of Robert, a boy who lost his father before he was born and was abandoned by his unstable mother and dead father's family. Robert's father was a soldier, who lingers on the periphery of his young son's life, writing ghostly letters of manly advice, and worming his way into Robert's subconscious as he watches him grow into...