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Black Rain Press |
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2008-09-15 |
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ITEM OVERVIEW
Michael Steinberg's new novel, The Big Nuthin, is set in a fictionalized city much like New Orleans before, during, and after a cataclysmic storm much like Hurricane Katrina.
It's a fable blending iconic images and legends of New Orleans with its harsh realities.
Tales of overwhelming disaster may sometimes be best told through the stories of a few phantasmagoric individuals. And realities too harsh to relate can occasionally be best expressed in the form of a fable. In The Big Nuthin, three souls are blown together by The Big Wind, and then sloshed about by the High Waters that fast follow and refuse to really recede. Mister Hepin Man, "the last of the last," carries on a sly struggle to hold onto "The Settlement," his ancestral home place. Meanwhile, Him and Her flame in and out of an ambivalent paranormal love relationship. All three are seeking solid ground of some—or any—sort. And much—too much—more. Framing all their stories is the City That Care Forgot, whose very name has taken on a new meaning that is a disaster in and of itself.
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