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Sto caricando le informazioni... French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemiadi Joshua Clark
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. One of the lines in one of the stories in this collection said that the French Quarter heals. For some of us, when we find it for the first time, a part of us that was missing finally feels at home. The vast majority of the stories in this collection reminded me of that feeling. ( ) This anthology of 37 short stories brings together the work of well-known authors -- Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, and Tennessee Williams among them -- along with those less familiar to most readers. What they all share is a fascination with the French Quarter of New Orleans. As with any anthology, the quality of the writing is uneven -- although I strongly suspect that a piece beloved by one reader would be precisely the story disliked by another. While a love of the French Quarter would certainly give extra relish to anyone deciding to read this, that's not a prerequisite for being swept into these glimpses of the Vieux Carre. Certainly a useful companion if you're planning to visit New Orleans. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Branching across every genre, from mystery and romance to flash fiction and prose poetry, this anthology features the best works by living writers on the heart of New Orleans, with one previously unpublished by Tennessee Williams. Features Ellen Gilchrist, Richard Ford, Robert Olen Butler, Andrei Codrescu, Barry Gifford, Poppy Z. Brite, Julie Smith, John Biguenet, Nancy Lemann, and Valerie Martin, among others. The characters in these works find themselves everywhere from Sarajevo on the eve of the First World War to Algiers Point just across the Mississippi River, but their stories are all anchored in the French Quarter. They wander from the 18th-century New World to a rooftop view of Bourbon Street on the cusp of the third millennium. Interspersed with the history of the city, these stories penetrate the standard clichés and reflect the true sense of the French Quarter-its sensuality, mystery, the life behind its walls-and lift the veils of privacy altogether. Whether surrealism or satire, these exceptional stories are beautiful, poignant, tragic, and comic. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.01083276335Literature English (North America) American fiction By type Short fictionClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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