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1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 35 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Michael Puttonen. |
| Summary |
Lewis King is a trumpet player who lands a gig in the Big Easy. He is a genius on horn, but King's private life is, morally, physically, and financially bankrupt. A heavy drinker and compulsive sexual manipulator, he is prone to paranoid fits of violent rage. Ms Sugarlicq, his girlfriend, can't keep her pants on. They're perfect for each other… A fantastic and graphic first-person narrative, Going to New Orleans serves as a surreal, yet faithful, guide to the food, music, history, and literature of New Orleans. A dirty book, but also a spiritual book one... If books had bloodlines, Going to New Orleans would be a cousin to both Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter and Tom Walmsley's Doctor Tin, and a bastard grandchild of Georges Bataille's The Story of the Eye. Like Slaughter, the protagonist is a horn player with a dark side, New Orleans in all its voodoo glory is a central character, and the language is evocative and spare. As with Tin and Eye, the all-pervasive sexuality is transgressive, perverse, algolagnic, and disturbingly captivating, like seeing a car wrecked after running the red-light district. -- Georgia Straight, Sept. 2004 |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Jazz musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Puttonen, Michael.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781927817766 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1927817765 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11284671 |
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