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Fiddler's Dream GREGORY SPATZ. Southern Methodist Univ., $22.50 (260p) ISBN 0-87074-508-5
The dream of becoming a Bluegrass Boy in Bill Monroe's band prompts a 19-year-old Vermont fiddler to head to Nashville in Spatz's limpid, earnest second novel (after No One but Us), set in the near past. Jesse Alison was eight when his father, an itinerant guitar player and songwriter, left for the last time and headed South. Gifted and determined as a boy, Jesse excelled at the fiddle (as well as guitar and mandolin), encouraged by Genny, the owner of a local violin repair shop who eventually …