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.
Author: Richard S. Kennedy
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 04/01/1998
Series: Southern Literary Studies
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.57w x 0.24d
ISBN: 9780807122730
Language: English
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