The Big Blow
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The Big Blow
Buy Now for $14.99
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Narrated by:
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Brad Sanders
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By:
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Joe R. Lansdale
About this listen
Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them.
The wild wind blows boxer John McBride into town, a white prize fighter with seemingly superhuman fury and skill. As black boxer Jack L'il Arthur Johnson prepares to fight this fierce opponent, the storm closes in. If he can survive the ring and the vicious undercurrents of the Jim Crow south, L'il Arthur will still have to fight his way through the storm winds, the rising flood waters, and the violent night.
On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.
Contains mature themes.
©2000 Joe R. Lansdale (P)2023 TantorFast paced from the very beginning, and I do actually recommend it for a listen. It’s kinda like a train wreck as far as stories go (I mean that in a positive way, believe it or not) in that I just couldn’t look away.
Also maybe not for the uber conservative listener.
Short but certainly not sweet
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