Clifford's Blues

Fiction. In his newest of twelve novels, John A. Williams presents the story of a black, gay jazz musician imprisoned in Dachau who manages to survive by working as the band leader of a group of prisoners who play at a nearby club for SS officers. If there is an undiscovered aspect of the black experience, it will be found by Williams. John A. Williams proves again that he is the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century -- Ishmael Reed.