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LITERARY NEW ORLEANS IBD

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRE
04 / 1998
9780807122730
Inglês

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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.