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Blind in Two Eyes
John Lopez
其他書名
A Novel Set in Old New Orleans
出版John A. Lopez, 2023-04-15
主題Fiction / Action & AdventureFiction / Historical / General
ISBN9798987835012
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JzirzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The novel is a fictional story of a poor couple's life in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1917 to 1933. The novel loosely captures the ambiance and historical events of this period affecting New Orleans, such as the Spanish Flu, World War I, The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927, the Great Depression, Prohibition, and the dawn of jazz music. The novel has multiple themes, including marriage, worker treatment, environment, race, and history. The couple's life in New Orleans follows their harrowing and heroic adventure in the Amazon and their impulsive marriage. To avoid the wrath of the German Army, the English couple escapes from the Amazon to the United States and New Orleans, where they must hide their identity and make a new life and home. As they adapt to the city working in Lake Pontchartrain bathhouses and steamships on the Mississippi River, they do not realize they are being hunted by a mad and deadly assassin on a cross-continental crusade to avenge his father's death aboard a ship they sank. Carl and Kate's marriage and meager life in old New Orleans are threatened again and again as they struggle through war, illness, and work at a time when jazz and bootleg liquor flourish in the Vieux Carré.