Resurrection Blues

By Mike Tanner

Book Overview

The tale of a musician who leaves school for a life on the road. Flynn Robinson is eighteen years old and has just made the most important decision of his life. Excited by an offer to play guitar in a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155037897X
• ISBN13: 9781550378979
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Annick Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.0"
• Age Range: 14 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 9 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Excellent

Resurrection Blues was a very interesting book to read. I have always wondered about how it feels to be "on the road" in a band. Somehow it seems to romantic somehow and it is for a time for Flynn. At first, he is seduced by the action, the rush of being on stage and of doing "live, paid gigs". Throughout most of the books, author Tanner does a fine job of walking a fine line between describing the various on the road gigs that Flynn and his bandmates perform and also showing us the more personal, family side of Flynn. It is obvious, as the book goes on, that the family side seems to be decreasing in importance as the gigs and the music and all that it encompasses start to take over Flynn's life. I liked the fact that the author does not make Flynn out to be either a really good guy or a really bad guy, but rather makes him very human and subject to poor choices and moral issues. As the book progresses, we find Flynn having to figure out what has become of him and what he wants for his future. There is no clear black and white here - however, there is a moral compass that Flynn seems to be searching for. The story is compelling, although the first few chapters were a little slow. I liked the descriptions of what life is on the road and the author hardly makes it romantic. This is a down to earth look at the hard choices that we all have to make at some point in our life.