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Ransom Island a novel
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Title
Ransom Island [electronic resource] : a novel / by Miles Arceneaux.
ISBN
1622880862
9781622880867
9781622880850
Edition
First edition.
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Nacogdoches [Texas] : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, [2014] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (276 pages) :) : map
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Notes
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
It's 1953 and life is good at Shady's, the Sweetwater brothers' fish camp, dancehall, and beer joint on Ransom Island. The biggest event in the island's history is coming up--an integrated dance featuring Duke Ellington. It's a daring idea for fifties-era Texas, and not everyone is happy about it. But soon interracial dancing becomes the least of the Sweetwaters' problems. Galveston mobsters track a runaway girl to Shady's and decide the offbeat island is the perfect place to diversify their illegal rackets... and God help anyone who gets in their way. Suddenly, life on sleepy little Ransom Island becomes crowded, complicated--and very, very dangerous.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 18, 2015
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