ISBN: 0394544455

Hysterically funny, beautifully written. . . . Warming and endearing, brilliant."-Anne Tyler, New Republic After four years of college in New England, Louise Brown is back in New Orlean… More...

Hysterically funny, beautifully written. . . . Warming and endearing, brilliant."-Anne Tyler, New Republic After four years of college in New England, Louise Brown is back in New Orleans, steeped in society's "wastrel-youth contingent" yet somewhat detached, observing it all. From one lush, sweltering event to another, Violent Love, Breakdowns, Moods, laconic speech, and drunkenness reign, inscribing the South's hallmarks of defeat and refuge in a group of people as intense and adrift as one could encounter. At the center (in Louise's eyes) is Claude Collier, rumpled, accident prone, supremely sweet-and desperate. For Claude, Louise is his steadying focus; for Louise, Claude is the only man who can break her heart "into a million pieces on the floor." By turns elegiac and eccentric, Lives of the Saints is the debut novel that marked Nancy Lemann as a rising literary star. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK "A lovely nutty book about a lovely nutty girl. . . . Hilarious, haunting, poignant."-Walker Percy "Spikily comic. . . . This is how Blanche DuBois talked before the lampshade was torn away and life became lit with a naked bulb." -James Wolcott, New York Review of Books Nancy Lemann is also the author of Sportsman's Paradise, a novel, and The Ritz of the Bayou, an account of the trials of Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards. She lives in San Diego. contemporary,domestic life,fiction,literature and fiction,religion and spirituality,women's fiction Religion & Spirituality, Knopf<

ISBN: 0394544455

Hysterically funny, beautifully written. . . . Warming and endearing, brilliant."-Anne Tyler, New Republic After four years of college in New England, Louise Brown is back in New Orlean… More...

Hysterically funny, beautifully written. . . . Warming and endearing, brilliant."-Anne Tyler, New Republic After four years of college in New England, Louise Brown is back in New Orleans, steeped in society's "wastrel-youth contingent" yet somewhat detached, observing it all. From one lush, sweltering event to another, Violent Love, Breakdowns, Moods, laconic speech, and drunkenness reign, inscribing the South's hallmarks of defeat and refuge in a group of people as intense and adrift as one could encounter. At the center (in Louise's eyes) is Claude Collier, rumpled, accident prone, supremely sweet-and desperate. For Claude, Louise is his steadying focus; for Louise, Claude is the only man who can break her heart "into a million pieces on the floor." By turns elegiac and eccentric, Lives of the Saints is the debut novel that marked Nancy Lemann as a rising literary star. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK "A lovely nutty book about a lovely nutty girl. . . . Hilarious, haunting, poignant."-Walker Percy "Spikily comic. . . . This is how Blanche DuBois talked before the lampshade was torn away and life became lit with a naked bulb." -James Wolcott, New York Review of Books Nancy Lemann is also the author of Sportsman's Paradise, a novel, and The Ritz of the Bayou, an account of the trials of Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards. She lives in San Diego. contemporary,domestic life,literature and fiction,religion and spirituality,women's fiction Religion & Spirituality, Knopf<

1985, ISBN: 9780394544458

New York. 1985. June 1985. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Slightly Worn Dustjacket. ISBN:0394544455. 144 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Jim Harter. FROM THE PUBLISHER… More...

New York. 1985. June 1985. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Slightly Worn Dustjacket. ISBN:0394544455. 144 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Jim Harter. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Claude Collier made the world seem kind,’ says Louise Brown, beginning a tale of Violent Love, Breakdowns, Moods, and Felonious Drunkenness that floats from one lush, green, sweltering New Orleans evening to another. Returning hone after four years of college in New England (‘Among the Yankees I have known,’ she says, ‘I only met one who had the grace to apologize to me about the War’), Louise bemusedly finds herself reimmersed in New Orleans society’s ‘wastrel-youth contingent.’ At the center of this gin-fueled hurricane is Claude, rumpled, accident prone, supremely sweet - and desperate. For Claude, Louise is his steadying focus; for Louise, Claude is the only man who can break her heart ‘into a million pieces on the floor.’. Nancy Lemann has written LIVES OF THE SAINTS, RITZ OF THE BAYOU , SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE, THE FIERY PANTHEON, and MALAISE. She is a visiting writer and instructor at The Johns Hopkins University graduate writing program and recently judged the first Walker Percy Prize in fiction for Loyola University and New Orleans Review. inventory #27975 ISBN: 0394544455.<

1985, ISBN: 0394544455

Erscheinungsjahr: 1985., Verlag/Ort: Alfred A. Knopf, New York., Fine in Fine dust jacket, First Edition; First Printing, 1/4 Cloth, ISBN 0394544455. A bright and attractive First Edition… More...

Erscheinungsjahr: 1985., Verlag/Ort: Alfred A. Knopf, New York., Fine in Fine dust jacket, First Edition; First Printing, 1/4 Cloth, ISBN 0394544455. A bright and attractive First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number; Nancy Lemann's first book [Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print Cons Betty Anderson]<

ISBN: 9780394544458

Knopf. Hardcover. GOOD. Gently used may contain ex-library markings, possibly has some light highlighting, textual notations, and or underlining. Text is still easily readable., Knopf