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Literary New Orleans

Essays and Meditations

Richard S Kennedy editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Louisiana State University Press

Published:1st Apr '98

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This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers - George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin - as well as three prolific twentieth-century authors who called the Crescent City ""home"" at various times: William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Walker Percy. In the book's final essay, Lewis P. Simpson reflects on the history of New Orleans as a literary center, giving special emphasis to Percy's The Moviegoer and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.

ISBN: 9780807122730

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 333g

112 pages