
The Big Blow
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Narrated by:
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Brad Sanders
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By:
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Joe R. Lansdale
Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them.
The wild wind blows boxer John McBride into town, a white prize fighter with seemingly superhuman fury and skill. As black boxer Jack L'il Arthur Johnson prepares to fight this fierce opponent, the storm closes in. If he can survive the ring and the vicious undercurrents of the Jim Crow south, L'il Arthur will still have to fight his way through the storm winds, the rising flood waters, and the violent night.
On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.
Contains mature themes.
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Joe R. Lansdale delivers again with the backdrop of an actual hurricane that hit Galveston in the early 1900's. Leave it to Lansdale to focus on a prizefight between Johnson and a hired killer. It's a tense narrative alternating between the growing storm, the harrowing escape across an access bridge for the island population and a young family who must make sure their baby survives at any cost.
Brad Sanders did an excellent job giving a raw edge to Jack Johnson's upbringing as a black man in a racist society. This is an excellent piece of historical fiction and told by someone who cares about everyman's story. This is Lansdale and you should listen to all the Hap and Leonard stories you can. You won't be sorry.
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