Barbara Hambly, Random House. pp. ISBN Summary. Benjamin January has lately returned to New Orleans from Paris, where he's made his home for the last 16 years. In Paris, January was a surgeon; in New Orleans, his life is constrained by a rigid set of rules that control his every move. He is known as a "free man of color," but in , that freedom is tenuous at best. Benjamin January Mysteries. The series, beginning with A Free Man of Color, follows Benjamin January, a brilliant, classically educated free colored surgeon and musician living in New Orleans during the belle epoque of the s, when New Orleans had a large and prosperous free colored demimonde. January was born a slave but freed as a young child and provided with an excellent education; he is fluent in . · A Free Man of Color () is the first of Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January mystery series. There are now over a dozen. I knew I enjoyed Hambly's writing from some of her earlier books, but was a long time beginning this since I don't always care for novels set in the past and this one is set in New Orleans in the s. It was fascinating!4/5().
a free man of color by Barbara Hambly ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, Once again exercising her talent for goldstained description, Hambly moves from a stylish fin de siäcle tale of Continental vampirism (Traveling with the Dead, ) to an equally stylish romantic suspenser set in New Orleans. Benjamin January made his debut in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color, a haunting mélange of history and bltadwin.ru he returns in another novel of greed, madness, and murder amid the dark shadows and dazzling society of old New Orleans, named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. The summer of has been one of brazen heat and brutal pestilence, as the. A Free Man of Color does that, transporting us to the socially confusing and racially diverse world of New Orleans in the decades before the American Civil bltadwin.ru paints with remarkable accuracy all the shades and tones of Creole culture: from the French plantation owners down through the mixed race free people of color, and down to the.
Barbara Hambly is the author of Patriot Hearts and The Emancipator’s Wife, a finalist for the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. She is also the author of Fever Season, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the acclaimed historical Benjamin January series, including the novels A Free Man of Color and Sold Down the River. Benjamin January Mysteries. The series, beginning with A Free Man of Color, follows Benjamin January, a brilliant, classically educated free colored surgeon and musician living in New Orleans during the belle epoque of the s, when New Orleans had a large and prosperous free colored demimonde. January was born a slave but freed as a young child and provided with an excellent education; he is fluent in several classical and modern languages and thoroughly versed in the whole of classical. Barbara Hambly, Random House. pp. ISBN Summary. Benjamin January has lately returned to New Orleans from Paris, where he's made his home for the last 16 years. In Paris, January was a surgeon; in New Orleans, his life is constrained by a rigid set of rules that control his every move. He is known as a "free man of color," but in , that freedom is tenuous at best.
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