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Lädt ... Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (Crown Journeys) (Original 2005; 2005. Auflage)von Roy Blount Jr.
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. memories of New Orleans A quick read with an author who "gets" New Orleans. Most of the book concerns itself with only The French Quarter, so the title is a little misleading. I did see one glaring mistake and I'm sure native New Orleanians will find others to quibble about. The next to the last chapter was more about Blount's friend than New Orleans and should have been excised from the book. Feet on the Street would have rated a four instead of a three from me IF it had covered more of New Orleans and hadn't had the wasted next to last chapter. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street's in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something." So writes Roy Blount Jr. in this exuberant, character-filled saunter through a place he has loved almost his entire life--a city "like no other place in America, and yet (or therefore) the cradle of American culture." Here we experience it all through his eyes, ears, and taste buds: the architecture, music, romance (yes, sex too), historical characters, and all that glorious food. The book is divided into eight Rambles through different parts of the city. Each closes with lagniappe--a little bit extra, a special treat for the reader: here a brief riff on Gennifer Flowers, there a meditation on naked dancing. Roy Blount knows New Orleans like the inside of an oyster shell and is only too glad to take us to both the famous and the infamous sights. He captures all the wonderful and rich history--culinary, literary, and political--of a city that figured prominently in the lives of Jefferson Davis (who died there), Truman Capote (who was conceived there), Zora Neale Hurston (who studied voodoo there), and countless others, including Andrew Jackson, Lee Harvey Oswald, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Jelly Roll Morton, Napoléon, Walt Whitman, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, Earl Long, Randy Newman, Edgar Degas, Lillian Hellman, the Boswell Sisters, and the Dixie Cups. Above all, though, Feet on the Street is a celebration of friendship and joie de vivre in one of America's greatest and most colorful cities, written by one of America's most beloved humorists. Also available as a Random House AudioBook Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)917.63History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in North America South Central U.S. LouisianaKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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