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Original Title:	Off Magazine Street
ISBN:	1596921323 (ISBN13: 9781596921320)
Edition Language:	English

Off Magazine Street

Ronald Everett Capps

Paperback | Pages: 401 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 449 Users | 55 Reviews

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Title	:	Off Magazine Street
Author	:	Ronald Everett Capps
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 401 pages
Published	:	January 30th 2005 by MacAdam/Cage (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Literature. 21st Century

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Fallen from grace and shunned by respectable society, Bobby Long is joyously content drowning his past in cheap hooch and bedding any woman with low standards and high tolerance. His partner, an unproductive writer named Byron Burns, is happy to join him for the long ride down. Their distant salvation is an unwritten manuscript sure to redeem their standing and pride - though both know it's just a thin reason to get up and go to the bar.

When their latest female companion dies in their fleabag hotel room, the duo find themselves putting up her young but futureless daughter, Hanna. Despite their own dishonorable intentions and aging desires, the pair cannot abide her lack of ambition and low expectations for herself. Together, they dust off their teachers' instincts and conspire to use every means necessary - legal, illegal, fair, and unfair - to get Hanna into college.

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I read this book after seeing the movie that was based on it. I liked the movie alot. I liked the book as much if not more. The book, centered on the lives of two men and a young woman. The good natured alcoholic men have taken in Hanna. This story tells of the caring, kindness, and boldness of all three.

One of the most accurate descriptions of New Orleans characters I have read. It is right up there with Confederacy of Dunces in my book. If you live in New Orleans when you read this book you know the characters as much as sometimes you wish you didn't. It is dark and twisted but so are the stories of many transplanted New Orleanians who chose to stay here because there is a certain tolerance for a style of living that isn't acceptable anywhere else.

This turned into the amazing movie A Love Song for Bobby Long. I was so enamored with the movie, I picked up the book. Couldn't get off the ground with the book, and don't know how the movie turned out so brilliant (except that it stars J. Travolta and the S. Johanson). I'll give it another shot someday.

It's not the movie, A Love Song for Bobby Long. The movie is one of my favorites, but if you expect the movie in the book the sceenplay was adpated from, you won't find it easily. This is no clear-cut, cause and effect storyline; rather, it is a place and an assortment of "outsider" characters who have many issues and failings. Aging reprobates traveling blithely on their chosen road. Only their exuberance for life and learning redeems them and confers salvation on a young girl thrown by fate,

(Please don't shoot me, but...) I haven't read the book, but I really liked the film adaptation, "A Love Story for Bobby Long". Thought it was a good character study about growing, overcoming, putting the past behind and looking to the future. Unique - not like any other story I've seen or read.

Interesting, because I loved the movie, Love Song for Bobby Long, which was based on the book.

This collection of short stories looks to be amazing! One of the stories was the premise for the movie 'A Love Song for Bobby Long,' starring Jon Travola and Scarlet Johnannson. The movie was the closest thing I've seen to date on film that honestly captures a cross-section of New Orleans life rarely seen in fiction. I hope the book is just as great; it'd be nice to visit New Orleans again through the book.