Ebook {Epub PDF} Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans by Roy Blount Jr.

In a new book, lt;EMgt;Feet on Street: Rambles around New Orleans,lt;/EMgt; humorist Roy Blount, Jr. celebrates the corners and characters of the city. Blount takes Debbie Elliott for a stroll. Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans Roy Blount, jr., Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. Report abuse. Autumn Sun. out of 5 stars. Breezy, fun, and full of love for the Big Easy. Reviewed in the United States on December 4, Roy Blount is appropriately known for his humor, which suffuses this short book of walking tours of New www.doorway.rus:

MIAMI, — Around p.m., three officers responded to a domestic battery call and were directed by family members toward a man leaning TAMPA, — Around p.m., Jonathan Bestoso, 24, threw a maintenance worker on the ground and hijacked his golf cart at the Seminole. Humorist Roy Blount, Jr. celebrates some of the more eccentric corners and characters of the city in a new book of meandering tales called Feet on Street: Rambles around Excerpted from 'Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans' by Roy Blount, Jr. Used by permission of Random House. (5) New Orleans is about five feet below sea level. (13) Many people left New Orleans before the storm, but others did not. (14) Some older people wanted to stay and brave the storm while they had with Hurricane Betsy forty years earlier.

/ Got your shoes on your feet, / Feet on the Street: Rambles around New Orleans by Roy Blount Jr. NOOK Book. Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.” So writes Roy Blount Jr. in this exuberant, character-filled saunter through a place he has loved almost his entire life—a city “like no other place in America, and yet (or therefore) the cradle of American culture.”. Feet on the Street: Rambles around New Orleans. “Those looking for a nontraditional portrait of this unconventional city will be delighted by Blount’s colorful, almost tender account.”. Publishers Weekly. “Blount writes a superb simple declarative sentence. But he’ll follow that with a sentence that even a Hall of Fame English teacher, equipped with fresh chalk and a full blackboard, would struggle to diagram.