Set in New Orleans at the turn of the 21st century, this continuation of the highly acclaimed Night People provides a stark, eccentric, and wholly original plunge into the dark and grimy world of just revenge, as it vividly tracks the lives of individuals intent on making a profound difference in the world before they are willingly or forcibly removed from it.
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Set in New Orleans at the turn of the 21st century, this continuation of the highly acclaimed Night People provides a stark, eccentric, and wholly original plunge into the dark and grimy world of just revenge, as it vividly tracks the lives of individuals intent on making a profound difference in the world before they are willingly or forcibly removed from it.
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Very Good. Presumed first thus; full number line. Softbound book in very good+ condition; would be "like new" but for a tiny bump to lower rear leading edge and faint age toning to margins. Otherwise a crisp, firmly bound copy. Gifford's novel of New Orleans outsiders.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book 1st, Ed. FINE/FINE. Set in New Orleans at the beginning of the twenty-first century, deals with people before they are " removed " from thier present world. "If an author's ability to lay an indelible stamp on a particular time and place is any measure of merit, then Gifford deserves applause. The latest work by the author of Wild at Heart returns to the locale he's making increasingly his own--a sultry, sleazy Big Easy fueled by cheap bourbon and lit by the late-night glare of TV screens. Even the bit players in this teeming cast of hookers, cons and wildeyed street preachers rejoice in names like Wilbur "Damfino" Nougat or Coco Navajoa. As usual, Gifford's narrative structure sprawls as picturesquely as the French Quarter itself: a series of loosely connected vignettes bordering on the grotesque rather than a unified story line. Continuities of plot or character threaten to develop only to be interrupted by sudden swerves and flashes of random violence. The dominant theme of these lurid postcards from the bayou--the violence men do to women, and their brutal comeuppance at the hands of their victims--is keenly evoked by Marble Lesson, a visionary avenger in the Lorena Bobbit mode..."--Publishers Weekly.
