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The Reputation of Booya Carthy
The Reputation of Booya Carthy
The Reputation of Booya Carthy
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In Honahee, a small Mississippi town where trouble brews quicker than bootleg whisky, all that Calvin ‘Booya’ Carthy wants to do is play the blues. Innocent to the ways of the world, he immerses himself into the cut-throat local scene, where even the smallest disagreements are settled with bloodshed. Playing outside the local store by day, and in the barrelhouse at night, his popularity soon spreads beyond the county borders.

The Great Depression has hit America. Violent racial hatred remains rife. Musicians are being targeted. When Calvin attracts the attention of a demanding white lady, wife of a racist bootlegger with sympathisers in the long and corrupt arm of The Law, he can no longer seek protection within the crowds who covet his music.

With a threat even greater than The Law descending upon Honahee, Calvin must decide how much he would sacrifice for his reputation, even as danger follows him ever closer to those he loves most. Where is there to hide when everyone knows your name?

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPhillip Drown
Release dateJul 31, 2015
ISBN9781310312014
The Reputation of Booya Carthy
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Phillip Drown

Phillip Drown writes with a fierce and unbridled perception of life and its characters, enlivening each paragraph with vivid reality and imagination. As a child, he dreamed up ideas for stories, filling numerous sketchbooks over the years, full of ideas for new tales (alongside poems, titles, song lyrics, sketches and doodles, scenes for films and comedy sketches). His published debut, The Reputation of Booya Carthy, was released in 2015. Described as "entertaining, gripping and almost unbearably poignant . . .", the novel received universal praise, and continues to gather new readers as it travels by word of mouth across the world. A barrowful of tales have followed since, some of which can be found on the Short Stories page of the author's website, www.phillipdrown.com. One of Phillip's stories, The Weight of Nothing, was included in Kerry Barner's Best of The Short Story: Volume 2. Another, Madame Colti, was published in a collective anthology titled Stories From Anywhere. Towards the end of summer 2019, he finished writing his (as-yet-untitled) second novel.

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