NASHVILLE CHROME
Author: Bass, Rick

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Price ( Hardback ): $24.00
Publication Date: September 14, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-0-547-31726-7
Category: Fiction

Based on the career arc of a 1950s singing trio, this mythic novel is sadder than most country songs and stranger than any.

A book that defies categorization, and that reads more like cultural criticism than fictionalized biography, this narrative ...

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