<![CDATA[Crawfish Mountain: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Crawfish Mountain: A Novel]]> 527468 2 Ken Wells’s highly acclaimed picaresque Catahoula Bayou novels introduced “one of the most compelling voices in fiction of the last decade” (Los Angeles Times). Now Wells is back, writing about his favorite subject–the exotic, beleaguered Louisiana wetlands–in a sharp, rollicking tale of corporate corruption and political shenanigans. The fight over one man’s tract of sacred marsh fronts a deeper story of our place in the environment and our obligations to it. Justin Pitre’s marsh island, a legacy of his trapper grandfather, is a scenic rival to anything in the Everglades, and he has promised to protect it from all harm. But he hasn’t counted on oil bigwig Tom Huff’s plans to wreck his bayou paradise by ramming a pipeline through it. When cajolery doesn’t sway Justin to sign the land over, Huff turns to darker methods. But Justin and his spirited wife, Grace, prove to be formidable adversaries–and the game is on. Into the fray comes the charismatic Cajun governor Joe T. Evangeline, who seems more interested in chasing skirts than saving Louisiana’s eroding coast. The Guv, though, is a man on the edge, upended by a midlife crisis and torn between a secret political obligation to Big Oil and the persuasive powers of Julie Galjour, a feisty environmentalist. Julie is clearly out to reform more than the Guv’s ecopolitics, but will his tragicomic Big Oil deals wreck both his career and his chances with the brash and beautiful activist? As Justin and Grace battle to stop this Big Oil assault, the plot thickens–and the Guv becomes snared in the web. Featuring a gumbo of eccentrics and lowlifes, a kidnapping, a sexy snitch, a toxic-waste-dumping scheme, a boat chase, and a fishing trip gone horribly awry, Crawfish Mountain, spiced with Ken Wells’s keen eye for locale, showcases his adventurous storytelling. 515238 23 10 2007 Crawfish Mountain: A Novel total:33|5:2|4:13|3:11|2:3|1:4| 33 105 49 15 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 07:58:01 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 07:57:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 16:46:19 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 17:29:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 21 18:08:27 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 18:12:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 15 13:21:46 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 13:23:06 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 10:17:28 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 10:19:09 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 18:04:09 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 20 12:48:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jan 21 16:08:14 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 16:11:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 18:28:25 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 18:30:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 28 06:20:46 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 06:23:24 -0800 2008 1 0 true false Sat Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 13:01:22 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 13:14:50 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Sep 11 08:55:55 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 08:03:01 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 08:55:55 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 21 06:10:25 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 09:09:49 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 20:39:24 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 06:11:41 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jun 02 05:12:33 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 05:13:00 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 29 04:57:47 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 05:02:29 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Dec 01 09:06:29 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 09:06:29 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 20:26:35 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 20:26:35 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 12:02:14 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 12:02:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 15:21:04 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 15:21:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Sep 08 14:17:13 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 14:17:13 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=527468