Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, this colorful and evocative novel captures the lives of the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Color, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the worlds of white privilege and black oppression. Reissue. (A Showtime/ABC-TV miniseries, directed by Peter Medak, produced by Anne Rice, starring Forest Whitaker, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Eartha Kitt, Pam Grier, Gloria Reuben, & Ben Vereen)