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Lawrence Bohme
ASIN: B00SGWEI5C
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 128

Book 3 of Lawrence's adventures, 1958 to 1960. After flying from Jamaica to Miami, the little family travels to New York by bus, through the "segregated" South where, in roadside cafés, Lawrence is shocked to see blacks and whites going into separate "rest rooms"... Having heard that, in Manhattan below West 14th Street live artistic people just like them, the three are soon squeezing themselves into a walk-up on West 11th. They know they're in the right place when, on days warm enough to leave the window open, as Lawrence plays his new LP of Wanda Landowska, an unseen pianist across the way can be heard repeating each of the Bach fugues one after the other... It being too late to get Lawrence into an "elite" school, his mother enrolls him in a factory-like "blackboard jungle" on West 18th where the pupils are largely from "uptown". There, Lawrence makes himself popular with the black ...
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