Bluehart

Bluehart is the life story of a fictional blues musician, A. J. Bluehart, as told by his daughter, Seven. Her purpose in uncovering her father's story isn't family history; it's to discover the source of his happiness. Bluehart's life is a parade of unlucky surprises, yet at the end he finds contentment; Seven's story, the novel's frame for presenting her father's memories, is an echo thirty years delayed. Can she find her own happiness as her father did?

Dennis Vickers was being born in Winner, South Dakota, while the Yankees were beating the Dodgers in the second game of the 1949 World Series in New York. The attending physician had a radio in the delivery room so he wouldn’t miss any of the game. Dennis now lives in White Lake, Wisconsin, where he writes peculiar fiction and has an irrepressible need to listen to the World Series.