The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/09/2005
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prose poetry, this anthology features the best works by living writers on the heart of New Orleans, with one previously unpublished by Tennessee Williams. It 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 cliches 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780971407671
- 9780971407671
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 29-09-2005
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Light of New Orleans Publishing, LLC
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions (mm):
- 230x155x29mm
- Weight:
- 0.59kg
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