Banjo

Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as “Banjo,” prowls the rough waterfront bistros with his drifter friends, drinking, looking for women, playing music, fighting, loving, and talking - about their homes in Africa, the West Indies, or the american South and about being black.

A novel about a group of Negro drifters living on the Marseilles waterfront in the 1920s.

Lincoln Daly like to play the banjo and is one of a colony of drifters who have settled in Marsailles. They hustle by day , an do the rounds at night, brawling in bistros, and looking for love.