Cutting Time

by Robert Dunn

A Southside Chicago blues joint in 1963

A hot young guitar player up against ...

... the King of the Blues

A witchy woman, a slumming debutante,

A white boy with his own secrets

They all come together in a wonderful novel that captures a remarkable world
of smoky blues clubs, dangerous characters, bewitched love, and surprising
gallantry. A fine read, at bottom Cutting Time is a novel of character tested:
How we suffer and fight for the lives we re born to fulfill.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Robert Dunn is a writer, teacher, and musician. He has published widely, including work in the New Yorker and an O. Henry Prize story, as well as the musical novels Pink Cadillac (a Book Sense 76 pick), Cutting Time, Soul Cavalcade, Meet the Annas, Look at Flower, and Stations of the Cross.

Dunn has worked for the New Yorker magazine and Sports Illustrated, as well as teaching fiction writing at The New School in New York City. In the 1980s he was Bernard Malamud’s personal assistant.

Lately, Dunn has taken up photography; his photobooks (OWS, Angel Parade, and Meeting Robert Frank) are available at the ICP Bookstore, Dashwood, the Strand, and numerous other art bookstores.

Dunn is married to a film art director and lives in New York City.