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by Harlan Greene

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Why We Never Danced the Charleston. 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
Why We Never Danced the Charleston. 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, and the fantastically ethereal Ned Grimke, a scion of the city.
Harlan Greene is author of the novels Why We Never Danced the Charleston, What the Dead Remember and The German Officer’s Boy. His non-fiction works include Charleston: City of Memory (with photographs by N. Jane Iseley), Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance and Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783–1865 (with Harry S. Hutchins Jr. and Brian E. Hutchins). Visit us at. ww. istorypress.
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.
The Preservation of Charleston. Greene places the story in Charleston, South Carolina in the 1920s - a time when high society was very high and memories of antebellum times were still very much alive (have they died out now?). William P. Baldwin, N. Jane Iseley, Harlan Greene. The German Officer's Boy. Harlan Greene. What the Dead Remember.
A homosexual love-triangle on the fringes of 1920s Charleston high-society-as recalled years later, rather too soulfully, by the narrator of this wispy, moist first novel. We felt more than guilty
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