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... set forth in prose by turns as grandiloquent as Faulkner and clipped and stylized to a fare-thee-well ... Kirkus Reviews
Carroll & Graf
January 2005
Featuring: Deke Watley; Alex Moreau; Hannah
270 pages
ISBN: 0786714328
Hardcover
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During Mardi Gras in 1958 New Orleans, tormented, half-black Alex Moreau plots revenge for the death of his mother; and he plots his freedom from the clutches of his white gangster father; the man he blames for his mother's death. He plots freedom from the sad town that is his prison.
As a pawn in his plan, Alex invites white Texas gambler Deke Watley to a high stakes Mardi Gras poker game. Deke knows he can win big, and thinks it's gotten even better when he discovers Hannah, a woman from his past; a woman he wronged; a wrong he's regretted ever since.
But it's Alex's game, and he weaves the worst of his troubled past to create an orgy of vengeance, only to find that the other players he's ensnared. . . they have scores to settle, too.
Amid the noise and the frenzy of Mardi Gras--drunken crowds, streamers flying like electric currents, bejeweled costumes glittering--Deke stumbles through this foreign, lurid town, seeking a return to the innocence he turned his back on long ago. However, time is running out and old debts must be paid before Deke--or any other hustler--leaves Bourbon Street alive.
This relentless new novelcombines Walter Mosley's dark brushstrokes of postwar America with the best of the grifters and petty hustlers that populate Jim Thompson.
"Bourbon Street" explores the dark side of the sad, notorious city called New Orleans.
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