Blogs in January 1970

The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow 1st January 1970

Bonaventure Arrow is born into grief with an extraordinary gift to hear beyond what the average person can hear. This is a story of texture and fabric set in 1950s Louisiana

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The Lost German Slave Girl 1st January 1970

It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally...

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Heaven’s Prisoners 1st January 1970

A finely crafted central character, David Robicheaux is in his boat in the Gulf when a light aircraft crashes. He helps in the rescue, a little girl is alive. She has been trapped in a pocket of air. Four...

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Hey, Joe 1st January 1970

A novel first serialised in the New Yorker…Joe Keith is a sorted, gay 16 year-old, meandering through a late-summer’s day in New Orleans. Drinking Bourbon, smoking reefers and kissing strangers – Joe’s night out will change his world forever.

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A Hall of Mirrors 1st January 1970

Rheinhardt, a disc jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans in the aftermath of Mardi Gras looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman named Geraldine who is psychically damaged by the...

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