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Title Statement | Cajun waltz / Robert H. Patton. |
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Author | Patton, Robert H.(Robert Holbrook), 1957- |
Publication | New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,2016. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 260 pages |
ISBN | 1250088992 9781250088994 |
Other Number | 2856990 |
Summary | "The lyrics of a Cajun waltz may be dark as midnight with heartache and trouble, but still the music swings. The same goes for what happens after a shifty musician and a lonely shopgirl let destiny sweep them into an ill-suited marriage in swampy southwest Louisiana on the eve of the Depression. Love doesn't much figure between Richie Bainard and Esther Block. They build a business together while dreaming opposite dreams of fulfillment. But like a gumbo simmering with peppers and spice, desires finally come to a boil. Three generations of the volatile clan grapple with the region's economic struggles and racial tensions. The Bainard children, twins Bonnie and R.J. and their half-brother Seth, pursue separate cravings for money, sex, and religion. The chase in each case runs off the rails thanks to an ex-marine with a soft heart and a brutish devotion; a dazzling young stepmother of mixed race and mixed motives; and a high school tart who proves tougher and truer than all of them. Ultimately it takes the mass devastation of Hurricane Audrey in 1957 to cleanse the reckless passions."--Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Families--Fiction--Louisiana |
City and town life--Fiction--Louisiana | |
By Location | Louisiana--Fiction--Social life and customs--20th century |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
Domestic fiction |