The Bluesiana Snake Festival

A Novel

Aubrey Bart

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Counterpoint
20 April 2010

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

""Probably many a road scholar would testify this place makes good leavin' and better comin' back to . . . Place puts a hold on your soul, man, these streets call you like an old song . . .""

So starts The Bluesiana Snake Festival as Hidden Dave Crossway, a New Orleans street sweeper, celebrates the city in its pre-Katrina skin. With the night of the ""snake moon"" as the backdrop, we experience the lives, languages, and rhythms of the French Quarter, an unexpected urban idyll.

Through a blend of voices--Big Jim Bullshit, Shushubaby, and Brooklyn Bob, to name a few--the musical voice of New Orleans is revealed in its varied dialects, grooves reminiscent of ragtime, jazz, and blues. The result is a look into who these folks are, their ways and beliefs, their senses of truth, and of existence itself. A novel about the joy and beauty of life in the depths, the momentum and narrative heart isn't driven by a plot - it's about the trance.

By: Aubrey Bart
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 198g
ISBN: 9781582435770
ISBN 10: 1582435774
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 20 April 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aubrey Bart was born in Baltimore in 1949, and in no time the American highway outdistanced his formal education. A former New Orleans street sweeper, cabdriver, and bartender, Bart is a paperback writer at large in The School of Rock. This is his first novel. He lives in Maine.

Reviews for The Bluesiana Snake Festival: A Novel

Advance Praise for The Bluesiana Snake Festival <br><br> Covering a single (pre-Katrina) night, Bart's story finds a full moon rising over a population busting at the seams; colorful characters such as Hidden Davey Crossway, Shushubaby, and Big Jim Bullshit, all city street sweepers, act as lenses through which readers explore the Big Easy's late-night backstreets in vivid, urine-stained detail . . . Bart's familiarity with the quarter shines. -- Publishers Weekly <br>