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Tambourines to Glory: A Novel

Tambourines to Glory • Crown Publishing Group • ISBN 9780767923279

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Tambourines to Glory: A Novel

Tambourines to Glory • Crown Publishing Group • ISBN-13 9780767923279

ISBN-10 0767923278 • 2006

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ISBN 9780767923279 • Completeness 51

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For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces you to an unlikely team behind a church whose rock was the curb at 126th and Lenox.Essie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed live in adjoining tenement flats, adrift on public relief.

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Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
September 26, 2006
Pages: 176

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Contributor: Tambourines to Glory

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Category: 20th-Century American LiteratureCategory: African American FictionCategory: African American Religious ExperienceCategory: Religious Life In FictionCategory: Urban Life In LiteratureCategory: Harlem RenaissanceCategory: Langston HughesCategory: African American Literature

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