Why We Never Danced the Charleston

Why We Never Danced the Charleston

ï¿½Old stories never end; they just come down the generations to resolve themselves among the living.ï¿½ The scene is Charleston, South Carolina; the time, the 1920s, when old ladies dream of the past and a strange new dance, ï¿½the Charleston,ï¿½ is seducing the youth of the city. Years later, whispers emerge of something baffling and tragic that happened back then. As an old man confronts those demanding the truth, we catch brilliant flashes of the confrontation between the dark, doomed Hirsch Hess, son of immigrants, and the fantastically ethereal Ned Grimke, a scion of the city. Told in intoxicatingly beautiful prose, this story of passion, beauty and the deadly effects of sexual repression takes us to a specific time and place, yet simultaneously blossoms as a universal tale of the human heart in conflict with its era. This cult classic, set in the most intriguing period of one of Americaï¿½s most beautiful cities, is now restored to print with an afterword by its author that traces the facts upon which it is based.
Country USA
Manufacturer The History Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2021-04-13
Format Kindle eBook

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