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Meely LaBauve

Name: Meely LaBauve
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Author: Ken Wells
ISBN: 9780375758164

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Published on Aug 14, 2001 | 272 Pages

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Fifteen-year-old Meely LaBauve is growing up on Catahoula Bayou and living by his wits. Not since Huck Finn rafted down the Mississippi has there been a coming-of-age story like this, told in such an utterly authentic unlettered American voice. From a charming encounter with first love in the Canciennes’ corn patch to an adventurous paddle through wild and timeless places little explored, Ken Wells has cooked up a zesty gumbo of a book–rich, poignant, and often hilarious.

* An American Library Association/YALSA best book of the year

"Do yourself a favor and become acquainted with Emile LaBauve… a cross between Huck Finn & Oliver Twist, with south Louisiana accent and a backwoods attitude… There’s a major talent at work here."
—The Denver Post

"[A] short and expert first novel… not only funny but infused with Wells’s deep love of Cajun patois."
—The New York Times Book Review

"[An] endearing debut"
—The Washington Post Book World

"Wells makes a lively fiction debut with this affectionate slice of Louisiana bayou life… Meely’s Cajun-spiced charisma never flags."
—Entertainment Weekly

"[Meely is] a cross between Huck Finn and Oliver Twist, which a South Louisiana accent and a backwoods attitude….There’s a major talent at work here."
—Booklist

"Often laugh-out-loud funny [but] Wells has carved a sincere and courageous portrait of a boy becoming a man."
—Bookpage

ISBN9780375758164

Published onAug 14, 2001

Published byRandom House Trade Paperbacks

Pages272

Dimensions5-3/16 x 8

Author

Ken Wells

Ken Wells grew up on the banks of Bayou Black in Louisiana Cajun country and began his writing career as a nineteen-year-old covering car wrecks and alligator sightings for his hometown newspaper. He was a reporter for four years with the Miami Herald, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and a writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal for twenty-four years. Wells left the Journal in 2006, to take a job as a senior editor and writer for Condé Nast Portfolio. He is also the author of four novels set in the Cajun bayous.

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