Don't the Moon Look Lonesome by Stanley Crouch

   James Alan McPherson recommends
Don't the Moon Look Lonesome, a first novel by Stanley Crouch: "This is an extraordinary effort by Stanley Crouch to employ the improvisational resources to the blues idiom to explore, in the novel form, the nuances of contemporary reality. In attempting to use 'riffs' to examine the emotional and psychological dimensions of his characters, Crouch has evolved a new narrative technique." (Pantheon)