Glass House (ePub)
Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence to find the city of...
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Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence to find the city of her birth changed, still a place of deep contradictions, a sensuous blend of religion, tradition, bonhomie, and decadence, but now caught in a web of fear caused by bad economic times, crime, and racial unrest.
Burgess Monroe is the drug kingpin of the Convent Street Housing Project. He has always known he would die young, and now he wants to use his wealth to do something for the poor people of the project where he grew up.
Delzora Monroe, Burgess's mother, works as a housekeeper in the mansion on Convent Street that Thea inherits from her aunt. Zora loves her son, but she knows that he has used his life to do evil, and she mistrusts his motives. She fears the repercussions when an attraction develops between Thea and Burgess.
The violence that results from the death of the lone cop has the city in the grips of fear. On both sides of Convent Street, the rich and the poor, that violence is about to be played out . . .
Wiltz has written for the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications, and she has been a writer in residence and adjunct professor at both Tulane and Loyola Universities.
- Autor: Chris Wiltz
- 2014, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
- ISBN-10: 1497655765
- ISBN-13: 9781497655768
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2014
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“It is the painful and unflinching honesty with which Wiltz confronts the issue of crime and fear of crime that give her novel its strength and power . . . A novel that needs to be read on both sides of Convent Street.” —The New York Times Book Review
“There’s romance in this book as well, [and] Wiltz’s expertly paced story sustains real entertainment while causing readers to search their hearts for their own hidden version of Convent Street.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A gripping, thought-provoking drama.” —Kirkus Review
“Glass House is a stunning achievement: a novel about prejudice, without prejudice. Like Nadine Gordimer’s, Christine Wiltz’s eye upon the futility around her is not clouded by a personal agenda; this is a book that could only have been written by an insider. Sometimes frightening, sometimes mordantly funny, always compelling, always honest, Glass House is an important novel, one that commands and deserves complete attention.”
“Christine Wiltz is a writer I believe. ‘As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide,” she recites, in an extraordinary quotation from Lincoln. It can be read as a prediction of the war between the races in which we are all, more and more, tragically and comically, engaged. Ms. Wiltz’s novel is, among other things, a report from the New Orleans battlefront in that war.” —Vance Bourjaily
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