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The Rebirth of Kool
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ISBN13: 9798663504584
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 4 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 4 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Los Angeles, 1943. In a city lit by flashing neon and shadowed by violence, Kool survives by instinct, a bootlegger chasing one last dream: a jazz nightclub in East Los Angeles that might buy him redemption in the very streets he once poisoned with hooch.
But when the Zoot Suit Riots ignite the city, his world fractures overnight.
But when the Zoot Suit Riots ignite the city, his world fractures overnight.
Forced into war, exile, and reinvention, Kool is swept from the chaos of wartime Los Angeles to the battlefields of Europe... from smoke-filled jazz dens to the restless highways of postwar America. Along the way he is seduced by new movements, new identities, and the dangerous freedom of the emerging Beat generation.
Every step forward demands a piece of his past.
As decades unfurl, the outlaw becomes something else - a lawman, a political force, an elder haunted by the man he once was. Yet history never truly releases its grip, and the question that follows him across continents and generations remains:
Can a man ever outrun the life that made him?
The Rebirth of Kool is a sweeping Neo-Noir thriller rooted in real events. An intimate and cinematic journey through war, music, rebellion, and the relentless search for identity in twentieth-century America.
Poetic, immersive, and emotionally charged, this unforgettable novel explores transformation not as a single moment... but as a lifetime.
Some journeys are lived again and again -
each time with deeper wisdom. This is such a journey.
Every step forward demands a piece of his past.
As decades unfurl, the outlaw becomes something else - a lawman, a political force, an elder haunted by the man he once was. Yet history never truly releases its grip, and the question that follows him across continents and generations remains:
Can a man ever outrun the life that made him?
The Rebirth of Kool is a sweeping Neo-Noir thriller rooted in real events. An intimate and cinematic journey through war, music, rebellion, and the relentless search for identity in twentieth-century America.
Poetic, immersive, and emotionally charged, this unforgettable novel explores transformation not as a single moment... but as a lifetime.
Some journeys are lived again and again -
each time with deeper wisdom. This is such a journey.
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