Why we never danced the Charleston

Harlan Greene

earliest edition we have, 1984 The History Press, 2005

Contemporary American fiction

The scene is Charleston, South Carolina; the time, the 1920s, when old ladies dream of the past and a strange new dance, "the Charleston," 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, a...

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Why We Never Danced the Charleston edition · 2005 · Arcadia Publishing · 9781625844903
Why We Never Danced the Charleston hardcover · 2005 · History Press Library Editions · 130 pages · 9781540203694
Why we never danced the Charleston edition · 2005 · The History Press
Why we never danced the Charleston edition · 1985 · Penguin Books · 151 pages
Why we never danced the Charleston edition · 1984 · St. Martin's/Marek · 151 pages

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