Creole Coming of Age Novel, Bodacious Blues, Published by Outskirts Press
Award-wining theatre director and veteran writer Whitney J. LeBlanc completes his blues filled trilogy of three generations of the Louisiana Creole Broussard family as brother and sister grandchildren find that coming of age is no simple matter.
Angwin, CA, July 02, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Louisiana native Whitney J. LeBlanc announced today the release of Bodacious Blues, published by Outskirts Press. The third and final volume of LeBlanc’s Broussard family saga, his latest work follows the coming of age of Ann and Les Martel, third generation descendants of the proud Creole family who have lived through years of lynching, lust, murder, religious conflict, voodoo, racism and, of course, the blues.
As the grandchildren of Martha Broussard, Ann and Les Martel must learn to carve their own paths in a world that at first seems remarkably different than their grandmother’s as they grapple with their own coming of age. Honesty has become weakness, truth is no longer the truth and sexual cross-identification is the new “value” that must be confronted.
Yet, underneath these challenges of a modern society so distinct from their Creole roots, Ann and Les find that they must also still deal with religious controversy and racial exploitation.
Ann Martel ends up a professional success by becoming the doctor that her grandfather always hoped her brother Les would become, but that social achievement pales for her privately as she becomes disappointed in love. Finally she finds happiness and contentment, despite all the reasons not to, with an older woman partner.
Les, on the other hand, defies everyone who challenges him in becoming the man he wants to be. He protests racial discrimination in Estilette. He takes on an abusive lover in Chicago. He fights a Paul Bunyan size giant in the backwoods of Bemidji. After arriving in Hollywood and giving a deserved comeuppance to a backstabber, he realizes that Tinsel Town is not the place he thought, and hoped, it would be. Its values are not his values, its truth is not his truth, and “loyalty” is an unknown word.
Bodacious Blues is a fitting finale to the fascinating tale of the remarkable Broussard family begun in Blues in the Wind and continued in Shadows of the Blues.
Bodacious Blues is available on-line in paperback through Amazon and Barnes and Noble and at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore for a maximum trade discount in quantities of ten or more.
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 paperback cream ISBN: 978-1-4327-7379-3 SRP: $21.95
5.5 x 8.5 hardback with jacket 978-1-4327-7300-7 $35.95
Kindle $7.15
e-Book $5.00
Genre: Fiction/cultural heritage/United States/family and relationships
About the author:
Louisiana native Whitney J. LeBlanc has been a teacher, writer, producer, set designer and award wining theatre director. He holds a Master’s Degree in Theatre Arts Production from the University of Iowa and has spent more than half his fifty year career in Hollywood as a television director. LeBlanc now lives in the Napa valley with his physician wife and writes novels and creates stained glass windows.
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/bodaciousblues.
Outskirts Press offers high-quality, full-service self-publishing and book marketing services for writers and professionals who are seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining 100% of their rights, 100% of their profits, and 100% of the creative control. www.outskirtspress.com.
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As the grandchildren of Martha Broussard, Ann and Les Martel must learn to carve their own paths in a world that at first seems remarkably different than their grandmother’s as they grapple with their own coming of age. Honesty has become weakness, truth is no longer the truth and sexual cross-identification is the new “value” that must be confronted.
Yet, underneath these challenges of a modern society so distinct from their Creole roots, Ann and Les find that they must also still deal with religious controversy and racial exploitation.
Ann Martel ends up a professional success by becoming the doctor that her grandfather always hoped her brother Les would become, but that social achievement pales for her privately as she becomes disappointed in love. Finally she finds happiness and contentment, despite all the reasons not to, with an older woman partner.
Les, on the other hand, defies everyone who challenges him in becoming the man he wants to be. He protests racial discrimination in Estilette. He takes on an abusive lover in Chicago. He fights a Paul Bunyan size giant in the backwoods of Bemidji. After arriving in Hollywood and giving a deserved comeuppance to a backstabber, he realizes that Tinsel Town is not the place he thought, and hoped, it would be. Its values are not his values, its truth is not his truth, and “loyalty” is an unknown word.
Bodacious Blues is a fitting finale to the fascinating tale of the remarkable Broussard family begun in Blues in the Wind and continued in Shadows of the Blues.
Bodacious Blues is available on-line in paperback through Amazon and Barnes and Noble and at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore for a maximum trade discount in quantities of ten or more.
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 paperback cream ISBN: 978-1-4327-7379-3 SRP: $21.95
5.5 x 8.5 hardback with jacket 978-1-4327-7300-7 $35.95
Kindle $7.15
e-Book $5.00
Genre: Fiction/cultural heritage/United States/family and relationships
About the author:
Louisiana native Whitney J. LeBlanc has been a teacher, writer, producer, set designer and award wining theatre director. He holds a Master’s Degree in Theatre Arts Production from the University of Iowa and has spent more than half his fifty year career in Hollywood as a television director. LeBlanc now lives in the Napa valley with his physician wife and writes novels and creates stained glass windows.
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/bodaciousblues.
Outskirts Press offers high-quality, full-service self-publishing and book marketing services for writers and professionals who are seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining 100% of their rights, 100% of their profits, and 100% of the creative control. www.outskirtspress.com.
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http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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