Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans

✍ Scribed by Blount, Roy Jr

• Book ID: 108245398
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 128 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307237002

✦ Synopsis

"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...