Lives of the Saints - Hardcover

Lemann, Nancy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394544455 ISBN 13: 9780394544458

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985

Synopsis

Louise Brown, a drifting woman of indeterminate age, is devoted to New Orleans' granduer and gentility, especially as embodied in old Mr. Collier, his subject-to-drink older son, and his subject-to-falls younger son

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"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".

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0394544455
• ISBN 13: 9780394544458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 143