The Bluesiana Snake Festival
A Novel
$25.06
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2010
Summary
“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.Through a blend of voices–Bi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582435770 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1582435774 |
| Author: | Aubrey Bart |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2010 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
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Praise for The Bluesiana Snake Festival
“Covering a single (pre–Katrina) night, Bart’s story finds a full moon rising over a population busting at the seams; colorful characters such as Hidden Davey Crossway, Shushubaby, and Big Jim Bullshit, all city street sweepers, act as lenses through which readers explore the Big Easy’s late–night backstreets in vivid, urine–stained detail … Bart’s familiarity with the quarter shines.” —Library Journal
About The Author
Aubrey Bart
Aubrey Bart was born in Baltimore in 1949, and in no time the American highway outdistanced his formal education. A former New Orleans street sweeper, cabdriver, and bartender, Bart is a paperback writer at large in The School of Rock. This is his first novel. He lives in Maine.
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