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Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
- Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- De: Morris Ardoin
- Narrado por: Morris Ardoin
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 10
In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. The stifling, sticky heat inspired them to find creative ways to stay cool and out of trouble. When they were not doing their chores — handling a colorful cast of customers, scrubbing motel-room toilets, plucking chicken bones and used condoms from under the beds — they played canasta, an old ladies’ game that provided them with a refuge from the sun and helped them avoid their violent, troubled father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this book! Funny, poignant, heartbreaking
- De BTM en 09-16-20
- Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
- Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- De: Morris Ardoin
- Narrado por: Morris Ardoin
Authentic and heartwarming!
Revisado: 07-29-20
At times I felt like I could smell a roux being prepared for the next gumbo on a cold rainy night or the strong scent of the initial cloud of smoke from my own grandmother’s rolled cigarette. Morris Ardoin truly captures what it was like growing up in south Louisiana’s Cajun country. As most Cajun’s do, Morris welcomes you into his family and seats you at the table as he serves up the language, the foods, and the way of life that at times made me feel as though I was back in the 60’s and 70’s accompanying him on hunting trips, trips to his Mémère’s or playing a hand of bourré at the kitchen table. What a gifted storyteller Morris is. I hope you take a seat at his table and join him as he shares his loves, his losses, his fears, and his richly intimate and deeply loving emotional bonds he had with his Mémère and Pépère. I highly recommend this book.
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