Realty Bluebook/Realty Bluebook Financial Tables/1993

This book was a great accurate portrait of New Orleans French Quarter of the 70s. Good story that takes you right there.

Jim Grimsley's story of a young man's coming of age is a spectacular journey though the culture of the French Quarter of New Orleans. The story looks at the main character's insecurities, hopes, dreams, and fortitude in living out reality. His self-awareness develops in the midst of evolving stories of people around him who are seeking out their own experiences of authentic life. Like other readers, I, too, am impressed... Read Full Review

Grimsley is a beautifully gifted writer. This novel, Boulevard, lacks his previous explorations on the quiet desperation of true love. It does, however, keep the wonderfully constructed portraits of characters and the interesting plotline. The story traces an awkward, somewhat cliche, coming-of-age of a country boy who comes to the Big Easy. By the end of the novel, one is not sure if the boy has really changed, or if... Read Full Review

I could not put this book down. Great story and even better characters. Explores life in New Orleans during the late 70s and it is quite the bizarre.. full of sensous moments and characters that are deeper than their appearance, I highly recommend this book.

This novel tells the stories of a circa 1976 New Orleans, Newell, a somewhat naïve country boy who moves there from Alabama, and the various people he encounters after his arrival. Reading this book, you'll visit a New Orleans that will never exist again and meet a cast of vivid characters that you will never forget. The story begins as Newell arrives in New Orleans on a one-way bus ticket with just enough cash to live on... Read Full Review