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Stories about New Orleans and the people who live there, people who are free to be original, like jazz. These stories are sad, celebratory and rich with the language and character of people who live in the ornate, musical, urban contraption that fights off swamp--literally and in myth--the city we call New Orleans. A Silver Cloud is a kind of Rolls Royce. Grue married (now separated from) a riverboat pilot, raised three children in the French Quarter, (now a grandmother). She works sometimes as a Tarot reader in the Quarter, loves a good funeral, has an above-ground grave in her side yard, celebrates the pageant, the splendor, the music, crawdads, poboys. Fun.
"She knows this world from the inside and loves it even as she demystifies it."
Andre Codrescu, Editor," Exquisite Corpse," Commentator, National Public Radio.
"This superb collection of stories is a welcome reminder that some of the best American writers of this century have come, and are still coming, from the South. . .A kind of lyrical economy is the guiding principle here. There is no cerebral posturing. Grue understands that fiction is meant to convey meaning primarily through emotional impact. Her fully conscious grasp of technique never becomes mannered or Mannerist; it is rather richly and delightfully modern."
Lawrence Kinsman, "Bay Windows"
"What all of Grue's stories provide is a thrill of discovery; they work out their resolutions believably with plenty of surprises."
Marshall Bruce Gentry, "Small Press"
Cover art by Moonyeen NcNeilage
"She knows this world from the inside and loves it even as she demystifies it."
Andre Codrescu, Editor," Exquisite Corpse," Commentator, National Public Radio.
"This superb collection of stories is a welcome reminder that some of the best American writers of this century have come, and are still coming, from the South. . .A kind of lyrical economy is the guiding principle here. There is no cerebral posturing. Grue understands that fiction is meant to convey meaning primarily through emotional impact. Her fully conscious grasp of technique never becomes mannered or Mannerist; it is rather richly and delightfully modern."
Lawrence Kinsman, "Bay Windows"
"What all of Grue's stories provide is a thrill of discovery; they work out their resolutions believably with plenty of surprises."
Marshall Bruce Gentry, "Small Press"
Cover art by Moonyeen NcNeilage
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- PublisherPlain View Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0911051724
- ISBN 13 9780911051728
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages124
- IllustratorMoonyeen McNeilage
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Goodbye Silver, Silver Cloud, New Orleans Stories
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Plain View Pr, Austin, TX
(1984)
ISBN 10: 0911051724
ISBN 13: 9780911051728
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Moonyeen McNeilage (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition 1984, limited edition, fist printing. Flat Signed by Author on title page, also inscribed and signed by Author on the front pastedown to a fellow writer " To Mary Ann, One of the Fine Michigan Writers. Best, Lee September 27, 1995". Softcover in glossy pictorial wraps, no DJ as issued. Condition new, square tight and clean book, no underlinings no highlights no bent page corners, spine Not creased, sharp corners. 8vo, 124 pages. Small red dot on bottom edge. Spine not creased. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 004162
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