The Bluesiana Snake Festival : A Novel.
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The Bluesiana Snake Festival : A Novel.
Yazar:
Bart, Aubrey.
ISBN:
9781582436623
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (127 pages)
İçerik:
Intro -- 1. The Quarter -- 2. East of Midnight -- 3. West to Eden -- 4. The Crescent -- About the Author.
Özet:
. . . Probably many a road scholar would testify this place makes good leavin' and better comin' back to . . . Place puts a hold on your soul, man, these streets call you like an old song . . ." So starts The Bluesiana Snake Festival as Hidden Dave Crossway, a New Orleans street sweeper, celebrates the city in its pre-Katrina skin. With the night of the snake moon" as the backdrop, we experience the lives, languages, and rhythms of the French Quarter, an unexpected urban idyll. Yeah . . . Way down river, heart of a swamp, she's a city made of music, down soft ground between memory and dream . . ." Through a blend of voices Big Jim Bullshit, Shushubaby, and Brooklyn Bob, to name a few the musical voice of New Orleans is revealed in its varied dialects, grooves reminiscent of ragtime, jazz, and blues. The result is a look into who these folks are, their ways and beliefs, their senses of truth, and of existence itself. A novel about the joy and beauty of life in the depths, the momentum and narrative heart isn't driven by a plot it's about the trance.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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