French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971407673 ISBN 13: 9780971407671

Publisher: Light Of New Orleans Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

"Branching across every genre, from mystery and romance to flash fiction and prose poetry, this anthology of works by preeminent writers on the heart of New Orleans features a previously unpublished story by Tennessee Williams, as well as stories by Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, Robert Olen Butler, Andrei Codrescu, Barry Gifford, Poppy Z. Brite, Julie Smith, John Biguenet, Nancy Lemann, and Valerie Martin, among others. The characters in these works find themselves everywhere from Sarajevo on the eve of the First World War to Algiers Point just across the Mississippi River, but their stories are all anchored in the French Quarter. They wander from the 18th-century New World to a rooftop view of Bourbon Street on the cusp of the third millennium. Interspersed with the history of the city, these stories penetrate the standard clichTs and reflect the true sense of the French Quarterùits sensuality, mystery, the life behind its wallsùand lift the veils of privacy altogether. Whether surrealism or satire, these exceptional stories are beautiful, poignant, tragic, and comic."

About this title

About the Author

Joshua Clark is a fiction and travel writer, editor, photographer, and filmmaker. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Edition details

• Publisher: Light Of New Orleans Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971407673
• ISBN 13: 9780971407671
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Clark Joshua