Rookery blues Book

Rookery State College in the late 1960s is an academic backwater if ever there was one--until the Icejam Quintet is born. With Leland Edwards on piano, Neil Novotny on clarinet, Victor Dash on drums, and Connor on bass, the group comes together with the help of its muse, the lovely Peggy Benoit, who plays saxophone and sings. But soon isolated Rookery State will be touched by the first labor union in the college's history. As a teachers strike takes shape, the five musicians must struggle with their loyalties to the school, the town, their families and one another. TP: Ballantine.