Jambeaux
November, 1979
First Look at a new novelAlong the main road into town, the ghosts of once-elegant, sprawling, New Orleans-style mansions loomed over prefabricated houses--long history and new silence. Galveston, an island originally inhabited by cannibals, was now gone to whorehouses and run-down gas stations, and those were wiped away with casual regularity by hurricances. A monolithic sea wall ran along Seawall Boulevard, sloping dowm form the street to an embankment of granite boulders that stretched away t...
