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Viper's Dream
Written by Jake Lamar
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This daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of midcentury Harlem is about one man’s dreams of making it big and finding love in a world that wants to keep him down.
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Jake Lamar
Jake Lamar was born in 1961 and grew up in the Bronx, New York. He is the author of the memoir Bourgeois Blues and the novels The Last Integrationist, Close to the Bone, If 6 Were 9, and Rendezvous Eighteenth. He has lived in Paris since 1993.
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