Why We Never Danced the Charleston

'Old stories never end; they just come down the generations to resolve themselves among the living.'The scene is Charleston, South Carolina; the time, the 1920s, when old ladies dream of the past and a strange new dance, ?the Charleston,? is seducing the youth of the city. Years later, whispers emerge of something baffling and tragic that happened back then. As an old man confronts those demanding the truth, we catch brilliant flashes of the confrontation between the dark, doomed Hirsch Hess, son of immigrants, and the fantastically ethereal Ned Grimke, a scion of the city. Told in intoxicatingly beautiful prose, this story of passion, beauty and the deadly effects of sexual repression takes us to a specific time and place, yet simultaneously blossoms as a universal tale of the human heart in conflict with its era. This cult classic, set in the most intriguing period of one of America's most beautiful cities, is now restored to print with an afterword by its author that traces the facts upon which it is based. ?Compelling? The New York Times. ?This story of demon lovers and a dream Charleston is a wonderful treat? James Purdy. Harlan Greene is the award-winning author of numerous books on Charleston and the novels What the Dead Remember and The German Officer's Boy.Greene, Harlan is the author of 'Why We Never Danced the Charleston' with ISBN 9781596290389 and ISBN 1596290382.