[Dead Man´s Blues]
Year:
2016
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Pan McMillan
Year of publication:
2017
Pages:
496
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
It is a crime novel set in Chicago in 1928. Two investigators from the well-known Pinkerton agency look for a young woman from an important family of the city who disappeared without leaving any trace. Their enquiries lead them to establish connections with the underworld controlled by Al Capone. The figure of the trumpetist Louis Armstrong, who is revolutionizing the jazz world, appears as a secondary character. The novel, whose plot is fictitious, is very well documented and it recreates the Chicago of the 1920s, under the Prohibition, its violence, racism and corruption. All these is set against the musical background of jazz and blues. It contains a brief sensual reference but is not descriptive.
Author: Fernando Cordero, Spain
Update on: Mar 2019