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Hudson Lake (Paperback)

by Laura Mazzuca Toops (Author)
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In the summer of 1926, the Jean Goldkette jazz band, led by sax player Frankie Trumbauer and featuring 23-year-old cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, landed a season-long gig at the Blue Lantern dance hall on Hudson Lake in rural Indiana. The culture clash that resulted between the gin-swilling band members and the stuffy townspeople, fueled by Indiana Klansmen on one hand and Chicago gangsters on the other, is the subject of Toops' evocative jazz-age novel. At the center of the tale is the mercurial Beiderbecke, whose star shone brightly but briefly in the jazz world. Like Frederick Turner in his fictional ode to Bix, 1929 (2003), Toops portrays the troubled yet brilliant horn player as torn between his devotion to music and his guilt over disappointing his straitlaced parents. Added to the mix here is a fictional romance between Bix and a college student. The romantic element drifts too close to melodrama, but Toops' ability to capture the intoxicating mix of energy and danger that defined the early days of jazz makes the novel required reading for anyone caught up in the enduring Bix legend. Bill Ott
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...a good read and ...a probable account of the times and tunes of this early jazz era. --John Russell Grist, host of the Midwest Ballroom, WDCB 90.9 FM.

Hudson Lake is a vivid, poignant, sexy tale of the Jazz Age... --Reviewed by Kevin Baker, author of "Dreamland," "Paradise Alley" and "Strivers Row."

Ms. Toops has a profound gift for winding an atmosphere in, around, and through every moment of her book. --Reviewed by Jeanette Cottrell

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 230 pages
  • Publisher: Twilight Times Books (February 15, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1933353570
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933353579
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #110,377 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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