Blogs in June 2020

Cane River 25th June 2020

Set among the plantations in deepest Louisiana, Cane River follows the lives of five generations of women from the time of slavery in the early 1800s into the early years of the 20th century. From down-trodden, philosophical Suzette, who...

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A Gathering of Old Men 25th June 2020

A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man–set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s.

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The Other Side of Freedom 25th June 2020

When the reward is the most costly sacrifice of all In a southern farming community in 1925, thirteen-year-old Salvatore and his Italian immigrant father become involved against their will in a crime that results in the murder of an...

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Midnight Bayou 25th June 2020

Ever since Declan Fitzgerald saw dilapidated Manet Hall, on the outskirts of New Orleans, he’s been enchanted – and obsessed – by it. Determined to restore the rooms to their former splendour, Declan begins the daunting renovation. But spending...

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A Streetcar Named Desire 25th June 2020

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. ‘I have always depended on the kindness...

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