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Return to Mardi Gras

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I thoroughly enjoyed Return to Mardi Gras. A friend read it and passed it along to me and I thought it was very good and passed it to another friend. What I really liked about the novel is that it puts you in touch with New Orleans and New Orleans history. It is set in the French Quarter and the writing is so vivid you feel like you are walking throught the French Quarter. There are several chapters about New Orleans history which is fascinating, as well as the history of the Cajuns and Mardi Gras. 200 pages of the novel are set at Mardi Gras and it tells everything about Mardi Gras; the parties, parades and balls and made me want to go to Mardi Gras. The story is about a conservative attorney who moves in with a girl who lives in the French Quarter and is a free spirit, and about how they try to reconcile their differences. I enjoyed her character development and she is quite an unforgettable character. The ending was a surprise and I stayed up late to see how it came out. I would recommend the novel to anyone who is interested in New Orleans or Mardi Gras.

I enjoyed Return to Mardi Gras. I think it does a very good job of telling everything about Mardi Gras. It not only tells about Mardi Gras in the French Quarter, which is what everyone sees on television. It also tells how it is celebrated in the neighborhood by the local people, which is very family oriented. It also does a good job of describing the quaint French Quarter scenery, as well as telling the history of New Orleans.

I live in New Orleans, and whenever people from out of town ask me what Mardi Gras is like, I give them a copy of Return to Mardi Gras, since it describes Mardi Gras far better than I can, and they see a true picture of Mardi Gras.

It is an interesting story about the romance between a conservative attorney and his young uninhibited mistress who lives in the French Quarter, when he moves in with her. It is amusing how they try to work out their different lifestyles, against the backdrop of the French Quarter and Mardi Gras.

I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to find out what Mardi Gras is really like.

I thought Return to Mardi Gras was a very good book. I was in New Orleans and went into a book store in the French Quarter and asked if there was a good novel about New Orleans, and they recommended this one. They said it had the history of New Orleans and told everything about Mardi Gras. I started reading it on the airplane going home to Chicago and I wish I had read it before I went to New Orleans or while I was there. It would have made the trip more fun. It not only tells the history of New Orleans but also discusses several things in the French Quarter--restaurants, bars, old historic buildings, traditional New Orleans dishes and drinks, and many other things. I finished reading it after I was home and it made me miss New Orleans. I enjoyed the story too about someone who lives with his girl friend in the French Quarter and during Mardi Gras sees some of Mardi Gras with her and also takes his young son to see Mardi Gras Parades and other Mardi Gras things, and has to decide between them. I won't give away the ending.

This is one of the least interesting books I've read in a very long time. No drama, no plot other than perhaps a middle-aged lawyer reliving his own disaffection w/ his comfortable family & wife & falling for a beautiful young woman. The history of New Orleans as related by the author is quite good, but as a book, a novel, give me a break. Perhaps this might fall into a category of "reimagined autobiography". A novel it isn't, that's for sure. The story line is trite, the writing brittle and boring. This book has about as much suspense, drama and engaging scenes as a walk down a midwestern street on a football Saturday. There ain't nothin' happenin' there. Please don't waste your time.

Jim is a 30 year old attorney in New Orleans who is having an affair with a beautiful 22 year old court reporter living in the French Quarter and named Aime. Jim leaves his wife and son and moves in with his mistress. A conservative attorney, Jim tires to accommodate and accept Aime's totally uninhibited free spirit driven lifestyle. All this against the detailed background of Mardi Gras of the 1970s. An engaging and highly entertaining work of period fiction, Return To Mardi Gras is Richard Sherman's debut novel and marks him as a significant literary talent to be looked for in the future!

I was expecting a good novel about Mardi Gras. It took about half the book before the parades even started. It's an interesting story, but if you're expecting the plot to be centered around Carnival in New Orleans exclusively you might be disappointed. The book was hard to read because the editing was really bad. Being a Louisiana native, I noticed several misspellings of New Orleans' places and in more than a few instances sentences just don't make sense. That was the biggest disappointment - that a book would get out with these kinds of mistakes.