The Big Easy

This novel of violence and racial strife set in New Orleans is full of social and physical contrasts. Comiski, a newspaper reporter, descends into an underworld of corrupt policemen, narcotics dealers and black militants in an attempt to unravel a mysterious grave-robbing and find some meaning in his own life. Powerful and compelling. (Originally published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin) St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Grim, gripping, violent and practically impossible to put down." Publisher's Weekly: "The scene is unglamorous New Orleans - decay, dirt, garbage... smell, every kind of filth, human and animal, in a brief, well-written novel of hopeless degradations that has a unique impact." Library Journal: "A short- fast-paced and absorbing novel... that probes deeply into the texture of the contemporary South, and entertains from first page to last." 9780989725507 0989725502 210 BOOK Fiction NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kBNUoAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: James Conaway
• | Publisher: James Conaway
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0989725502
• | ISBN-13: 9780989725507