| Babylon Rolling Contributor(s): Boyden, Amanda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307388247 ISBN-13: 9780307388247 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: A glittering, gritty, and unflinching story of five families living along one block in New Orleans, a city on the verge of transformation, from the author of Pretty Little Dirty. The summer of 2004: Orchid Street is changing. Newcomers arrive from the Midwest, a teenager returns from juvenile detention. Longtime residents peer out their windows, watching their strange new neighbors. But with one random accident, a scene of horror across front lawns, the whole neighborhood converges on the sidewalk. Told in five achingly real voices, Babylon Rolling" "is the story of a year on Orchid, where lives collide and the humid air is charged with constant wanting. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.34" W x 7.96" (0.55 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ariel May and her husband, Ed, have just moved to New Orleans with their two small children. Their neighbor, Fearius, is a fifteen-year-old just out of juvenile detention. Across the street, an elderly couple, the Browns, are only trying to pass their days in peace, while Philomenia Beauregard de Bruges, a longtime resident and "Uptown lady," peers through her curtains at the East Indian family next door.With one random accident, a scene of horror across front lawns, the whole neighborhood converges on the sidewalk and the residents of Orchid Street are thrown together, for better and for worse. |