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The Hellhound Sample
By Charles Shaar Murray
“The rock critic’s rock critic.” – Q Magazine
“Rock’s original gunslinger.” – Independent on Sunday
The definitive rock’n’roll novel, written by a
definitive rock’n’roll critic.
A generational novel of an African-American
musical dynasty, this distills six decades of
blues, soul and rap history into an unforgettable
music mythology.
The Moon family is led by James “Blue” Moon,
legendary blues guitarist from Mississippi.
His daughter, Venetia Moon, is a bored soul
diva, and his grandson, Calvin, a millionaire
rapper, producer and mogul, is on the down,
down low.
James, just diagnosed with terminal cancer,
needs to pull together his distressed family
and make one final, fantastic legacy record.
A 3-GENERATION AFRICAN-AMERICAN
MUSICAL DYNASTY
The Hellhound Sample
ISBN: 978-1-900486-78-1
$14.95 | paper
5 x 8
500 pages
May
Fiction
Charles Shaar Murray was a staff writer, then
Associate Editor, at NME in the 1970s, and
contributed to Rolling Stone, Vogue, Q, Mojo, The
Face, Arena, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The
Independent, Independent On Sunday, The Observer,
The Sunday Times, The London Evening Standard, and
New Statesman. He took tea at three with the
Stones, partied with Miles and clashed with
the Clash. He is the Ralph J. Gleason Music
Book Award-winning author of Crosstown Traffic:
Jimi Hendrix And Post-war Pop (Faber & Faber), and
Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the
American Twentieth Century (Viking/Penguin),
later short-listed for the same award.
MARKETING
■ author’s lifetime sales top 100,000 copies
■ ads, reviews and features in alternative and music media
■ review copies available
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