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Redemption
Frederick Turner
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9780151014705 Hardcover
0151014701
$24.00
368pages
Available
Trim Size:
6 x 9
Copyright Year:
2006
Territory:
US, C, O (-EU)
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Synopsis |
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Francis Muldoon is a special policeman in the notorious Storyville District of New Orleans in 1913. His job is to see that the District’s volatile mixture of sex, alcohol, and gambling doesn’t boil over but instead rolls along at a continuous simmer. Once a member of the city’s regular police force, he now works for the District’s vice lord, Tom Anderson, patrolling his patron’s honky-tonks and saloons and whorehouses—both the high-priced bordellos and the coffinlike cribs where the girls work with only a cot and a washbasin. When Adele, a beautiful singer at the Tuxedo dance hall, draws Francis into a contentious rivalry for her affection, a fatal shootout is the inevitable conclusion, sending the District into a scalding eruption and revealing the central characters for what they are.
Filled with the rich atmosphere of America’s most colorful city, Redemption is the powerfully told tale of a man’s efforts to restore the integrity of his soul.
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Praise |
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"Whether [Turner is] describing the mournful chorus of the blues coming from hundreds of wretched whores in "cribs" lining Storyville's back streets or the raucous entertainment offered at various sporting establishments in the district, every scene, however ugly, is presented in rich, ravishing detail."--The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times,
"New Orleans has seldom been stickier, ladies of the evening slinkier, or male violence held at a steadier simmer than in Turner's humid crime drama ... This dark, potent novel should be savored slowly, like a stiff Sazerac."
Entertainment Weekly,
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Biography |
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FREDERICK TURNER is the author of seven books of non-fiction and one novel. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Historical
Fiction- General
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Contents
I. Fast-Mail
II. Tom Anderson
III. Mamie
IV. Adele
V. Madame Papaloos
VI. Toodloo
VII. Evangeline |
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Serial/Audio/Performance/UK/Translation: Robin Straus Agency
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Rights Information |
Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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