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Friday, 28 February 2014 00:00 |
Memphis Mojo Released Februrary 20, 2014, by Lamar University Press Lamar University Press is pleased to announce the publication of Memphis Mojo, a new novel by Gerald Duff. In a press release issused on the date of publication, the press states
"In Memphis Mojo, J.W. Ragsdale, a failed cotton farmer turned Memphis homicide detective, is faced with a cowboy preacher, a home invasion, urban gangs, and a killer who sees spirits and converses with the dead, including Martin Luther King, Jr and Rickey Nelson. The setting is Memphis, in the year celebrating the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley's recording of his first song at Sun Studio, That's All Right, an event publicized in the Bluff City as "A Global Moment in Time." In Memphis Mojo, crimes are committed and solved, but the story truly centers about a place, a time, a social profile, and a set of characters in the grip of music, magic, and mania. Gerald Duff's first novel about J.W. Ragsdale, Memphis Ribs, was praised by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, The Library Journal, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, among others. An Associated Press review said the novel is a combination of "crime and enough dark humor to make readers guffaw and hope no one heard them. Gerald Duff has published 17 books, won the Cohen Prize for Fiction, the Philosophical Society of Texas Award, and been named a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Award for fiction. His novel Dirty Rice was named a Silver Medalist for 2012 by the Independent Publishers Association. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. Order from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or the bookstore of your choice. Release date: February 20, 2014 ISBN 978-0-9911074-2-1"
To view the press release online, here. |