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Writing from the perspective of gray-haired middle age, Sudduth Meadows Spencer, the narrator of this brief, meandering, oddly charming first novel, reminisces about the glory days of his privileged youth as a member of the New Orleans upper crust. Suddie was 23 in the spring of 1966, and apart from a job editing a textile magazine in a fine old business on Carondelet Street, his main worries as a "gentleman" were curing his epic hangovers. These were the days of Carnival and the Knights of Momus Ball, of "regattas and wenching," days when "football was shining, noble and all consuming." Golden girls and boys caroused all night, but no one was more beautiful, more wild, more of a lush than Baby Soniat, one-time Queen of Carnival. Baby, who collected drawersful of boys' fraternity pins, lives at the center of Sudduth's memories; he never quite gets over hoping for her love. In choosing to narrate the novel in Sudduth's naive voice, the New Orleans-born author is not always in control of his material. But the narrative evokes its era effectively, capturing a dying moment in Southern culture when blacks--servants, trolley drivers and whores--were regarded with a fond but decidedly condescending attitude.
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- PublisherPeachtree Pub Ltd
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0934601887
- ISBN 13 9780934601887
- BindingHardcover
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