He was also a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Weary discovers that, while Los Angeles is far different from the deep South, it is a place of discrimination, mistrust, and intolerance where a black man even one as talented and popular as Nat King Cole is not wholly welcome. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for his novel Like Trees, Walking. On his walk this morning, the Britton School had appeared dauntingly. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Advice for aspiring writers: Treat it like a job: write every weekday and take the. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Like Trees, Walking are 9780062278326, 0062278320 and the print ISBNs are 9780060529604, 0060529601. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and he was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for his novel Like Trees, Walking and was. It is the promise of a new life removed from the terror, violence, and degradation of Jim Crow Alabama. Like Trees, Walking: A Novel is written by Ravi Howard and published by Harper Perennial. Six months before Weary is released, he receives a remarkable offer: he will be Nat King Coles driver and bodyguard. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University. When a white man attacks Cole with a pipe, Weary leaps from the audience to defend him an act that will lead to a 10-year prison sentence.īut the singer will not forget his friend and the sacrifice he made. Ravi Howard is the author of Like Trees, Walking, and Driving the King. But while the world has changed, segregated Jim Crow Montgomery remains the same. His childhood friend, Nat Weary, plans to propose to his sweetheart, and the singer will honor their moment with a special song. The war is over, the soldiers are returning, and Nat King Cole is back in his hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, for a rare performance. A daring and brilliant new novel that explores race and class in in 1950s America.

Like Trees, Walking by Ravi Howard