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Higher Ground - Couverture souple

Nolan, James

 
9781935754060: Higher Ground
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1935754068 ISBN 13 : 9781935754060
Editeur : University of Louisiana, 2011

Synopsis

HIGHER GROUND is a comic noir novel that begins five months after a hurricane has devastated New Orleans. Nicole Naquin, home for the first time in decades, is living next door to her mother Miss Gertie, an elderly evacuee from Lakeview reduced to pushing pills in a French Quarter gay bar. On the day Nicole's brother is killed in a drive-by shooting, she crashes the car into her high-school sweetheart's FEMA trailer, igniting a sexy romance among the ruins. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Vinnie Panarello works at furious cross-purposes with hippie sleuth Gary Cherry to find the brother's killer, uncovering a murderous cult on Rampart Street in the process.

This Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal-winning novel is a darkly satiric romp through a city fighting for its life, from the mayoral election to Mardi Gras, Lakeview to the French Quarter, the Garden District to Parish Prison. It's a classic story of individual redemption amid collective destruction, one in which crooked politicians rule the day, leaving displaced home owners, bereaved mothers, drag queens, drug dealers, and illegal immigrants to band together for survival and justice.

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Éditeur
University of Louisiana
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1935754068
ISBN 13 
9781935754060
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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