Reviewer: Alan Chin
Publisher: Chelsea Station Editions
Pages: 169
This collection of short fiction delves into the gay
demimonde in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina. A variety of interesting
characters—lawyers, supermarket clerks, drifters, painters and musicians,
cabaret singers and writers—alternately dominate the pages and then fade into
the background to let the main character, New Orleans, take center stage.
A litany of the city’s bars and restaurants and hangouts
have a visceral hold on these men; even when they are far away from this
magical city, the memory of it haunts them.
William Sterling Walker writes with wisdom and compassion.
His vividly imagined characters seem to embody the ravenous spirit of the city
they inhabit. These stories are intelligent and real. They are vibrant and
written with carefully chosen words to evoke a mood, and also to touch
something deep in the soul of the reader.
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