· Fifteen-year-old Meely LaBauve is growing up on Catahoula Bayou and living by his wits. His father is an alligator hunter, still unable to cope with the death of his wife eight years earlier. He finds comfort in bottles of hooch and with companionable women and disappears for days at a time.5/5(7). -A Ken Wells novel-Meely LaBauve. An excerpt from Meely LaBauve, Chapter 1 Daddy's gone off again to hunt gators. He says the police might come lookin' for him ‘cause of some problem with his ole truck. He says I can hide or not. I'm not gonna hide this time. If they come they'll ax me questions. Wells manages to be graphic, sweet and funny in the scenes where Meely discovers the pleasures of sex with his black friend and neighbor, Cassie.
Meely LaBauve. Author Ken Wells; ; Author: Ken Wells. Publisher: Random House. ISBN: Category: Fiction. Page: View: Download Now. Fifteen-year-old Meely LaBauve is growing up on Catahoula Bayou and living by his wits. His father is an alligator hunter, still unable to cope with the death of his wife eight. MEELY LABAUVE. by Ken Wells. A review by Gary M. Lavergne for the Austin American-Statesman. Ap. Meely LaBauve is a nice, year-old Cajun boy who loves his trashy daddy. They live in a shack on the "lonesome end of Bayou Catahoula" in the swamps of Louisiana. Meely has been compared to Huckleberry Finn, and sometimes he talks like. Ken Wells in association with Random House presents the novel Meely LaBauve. Meely LaBauve is set in the swamps of South Louisiana. Celebrating 16 years on the web in ! --About the author--Ken Wells grew up on the banks of Bayou Black deep in South Louisiana's Cajun belt.
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. Ken Wells is the author of Meely LaBauve ( avg rating, ratings, 72 reviews, published ), Junior's Leg ( avg rating, ratings, 24 revie. Wells manages to be graphic, sweet and funny in the scenes where Meely discovers the pleasures of sex with his black friend and neighbor, Cassie.
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