Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
Three Dashes Bitters - cover

We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy!

Three Dashes Bitters

Jack Simmons

Publisher: Palaver

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

When Tim Schmidt returns to New Orleans to attend his sister’s debutante ball, he finds that nothing has changed during his three-year hiatus in the orderly sanctuary of Boston.

 
He is still in love with Jane, a hard-drinking iconoclast, too well bred to join the ranks of the Generation X slackers, yet unable to accept the standards of her high society upbringing. Happily, it seems Jane might still harbor feelings for him. 

 
But over drinks at The Columns Hotel, things get messy, and Tim’s grand return to the city of his birth soon unravels—the very sort of thing that inspired Tim to leave NOLA in the first place.

 
With only twenty-four hours to figure out what to do (which has never been Tim’s forte), this former philosophy student finds unsolicited advice from members of a new leisure class. There is Milton, Tim’s college roommate turned Marxist revolutionary, a Falstaffian gent bent on overthrowing the government. Two young Arizona “brothers from another mother.” A disillusioned German exchange student who has abandoned the study of physics for the French Quarter social scene. And an Italian fellow who is a self-proclaimed master in the art of amore.

 
Picking up were Walker Percy (The Moviegoer) and John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces) left off, this wild romp presents New Orleans as an eternal city, whose characters exceed the vicissitudes of fortune, functioning instead as a universal canvas upon which individuals must struggle to carve out their existence. This is not the NOLA of Hurricane Katrina, political corruption, crime, tourism, or the home of jazz. Rather, Simmons adds to the literary œuvre of this Southern city, and Three Dashes Bitters captures a New Orleans defined only in the individuals we encounter—not the easy stereotypes that make individuality impossible.
Available since: 01/31/2017.

Other books that might interest you

  • Dan and Nat Got Married - cover

    Dan and Nat Got Married

    Jon Rance

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Marriage can be difficult. Especially when you've only just met.Meet Dan Fox, 34, an online marketing manager from Clapham who was jilted at the altar two years ago by the love of his life and hasn’t dated since. Nat Howard, 32, is living back at home with her parents in Dorking after her perfect boyfriend dumped her and she had to move out of his bespoke flat in Putney.On separate Stag and Hen weekends in Las Vegas, Dan and Nat wake up married. Both too drunk to remember what happened, they return to England and try to get on with their lives. But there was something about Nat that makes the usually cautious Dan think they should give their marriage a go. Nat’s still in love with her ex, but maybe Dan can help mend her broken heart.P<>Can marriage between two relative strangers really work? And when Nat's ex-boyfriend — the gorgeous Charlie — comes back into her life, she must decide — something old or something new?Set in London, Dan and Nat Got Married is a funny and full of heart modern romantic comedy about marriage, relationships and giving love a second chance.
    Show book
  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Music - cover

    Uncle John's Bathroom Reader...

    Institute Bathroom Readers'

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    An entertaining trivia compendium flush with fun facts about all things music. From boogie-woogie to Beethoven, from Prince to Pavarotti, from the bards of Broadway to the rebels of rock ’n’ roll—it’s all here. Uncle John has created this harmonious collection of tuneful tales for music lovers everywhere.  Uncle John has proven once again that he is in tune with our legion of loyal readers. This 516-page musical masterpiece dedicated to all things noteworthy ranges from silly one-hit wonders to culture-changing musical milestones. You’ll get a glimpse into the future of music and go back to the days when prehistoric man first started communicating in song. So, plug in your amp, turn the dial up to eleven, and have a blast reading about:  ·      The origins of nearly every genre and style of music—including rock, country, jazz, the blues, rhythm-and-blues, hip hop, punk, folk, polka, opera, Muzak, disco, and even marching bands  ·      Musical legends, from “outsiders” like the Shaggs and the Carter family, to giants like the Beatles, Elvis, and Weird Al Yankovic  ·      The stories of legendary music venues like the Grand Ole Opry, the Apollo, and the Fillmore  ·      How a computer glitch led to Right Said Fred’s 1991 hit “I’m Too Sexy”  ·      Why waltzing was considered as scandalous in its early days as rock was in its early days  ·      The birth of the banjo, the electric guitar, karaoke, and the Stradivarius violin  ·      How John Williams struck a universal chord with his score for Star Wars ·      Go underground to play the world’s largest natural musical instrument  ·      What happened at Woodstock and other weird concert mishaps  And much, much more
    Show book
  • The Little Lady Agency - cover

    The Little Lady Agency

    Hester Browne

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    When Melissa is made unfairly redundant from her job at an estate agents' office, she decides it's time for a change. Instead of working for other people, Melissa will go into business for herself: using her organisational skills to whip the lives of London's socially and romantically challenged men into shape. Then Melissa meets Jonathan, and suddenly she must decide if she can mix business with pleasure...
    Show book
  • Sisterchicks in Sombreros - cover

    Sisterchicks in Sombreros

    Robin Jones Gunn

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Best-selling Christian author Robin Jones Gunn delights  millions of readers with her Sisterchicks series. Featuring the  “almost twin” sisters Melanie and Joanne, each book is filled  with equal helpings of laughter and appreciation for God’s  guidance. The sisterchicks are surprised to learn that they  have inherited their uncle’s beachfront cottage in Mexico.  Leaving their homes in chilly Canada, they soon find  themselves cruising to the sunny south, where the path to their inheritance is strewn  with unexpected blessings.
    Show book
  • Abbott and Costello: Thanksgiving 1948 - cover

    Abbott and Costello:...

    John Grant, Bud Abbott

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Abbott and Costello plan to kill Ingrid, Costello's pet turkey, for Thanksgiving. Guest Jane Wyman joins in a routine, What is the wind? Connie Haines sings, Shoo, Shoo Baby. Mel Blanc appears as Bugs Bunny.
    Show book
  • If Frogs Could Fly - cover

    If Frogs Could Fly

    E.B. Mendel

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    In this satirical novel that was first published as an ebook in 2016, an expedition team searches for a lost tribe of Israel thought to be living in the Amazon rain forest of Peru. The expedition team discovers more than what they expected. IF FROGS COULD FLY is "a psychedelic romp with a 1960's undercurrent, strangely relevant to our times."Kirkus Reviews calls it: "A HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE TALE . . ."
    Show book