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Sociology. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.”So writes Roy Blount Jr. in this exuberant, show more 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.” Here we experience it all through his eyes, ears, and taste buds: the architecture, music, romance (yes, sex too), historical characters, and all that glorious food.
The book is divided into eight Rambles through different parts of the city. Each closes with lagniappe—a little bit extra, a special treat for the reader: here a... show less
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A quick read with an author who "gets" New Orleans. Most of the book concerns itself with only The French Quarter, so the title is a little misleading.
I did see one glaring mistake and I'm sure native New Orleanians will find others to quibble about.
The next to the last chapter was more about Blount's friend than New Orleans and should have been excised from the book.
Feet on the Street would have rated a four instead of a three from me IF it had covered more of New Orleans and hadn't had the wasted next to last chapter.
I did see one glaring mistake and I'm sure native New Orleanians will find others to quibble about.
The next to the last chapter was more about Blount's friend than New Orleans and should have been excised from the book.
Feet on the Street would have rated a four instead of a three from me IF it had covered more of New Orleans and hadn't had the wasted next to last chapter.
With lyrical writing, Blount narrates his various stops around New Orleans. Entertaining travel essay, but maybe not my favorite on New Orleans.
memories of New Orleans
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Roy Blount, Jr., has written for the Atlantic Monthly since 1981.
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- Canonical title
- Feet on the Street
- Alternate titles
- Feet on the street : rambles around New Orleans
- Original publication date
- 2005
- Important places
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Classifications
- Genres
- Travel, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 917.63 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in North America South Central U.S. Louisiana
- LCC
- F379 .N54 .B58 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history Louisiana
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- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.38)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 1
