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Southern Writers Reading Group
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Time: Monday, August 25, 2008 6:30 p.m.
Location: Carpe Librum Booksellers
The Southern Writers Reading Group will discuss "Perpetual Care: Stories" by James Nolan.
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Perpetual Care and Other Stories(Trade Paperback)
by
Nolan, James
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$16.95
Published: Jefferson Press, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
This collection of short stories, which was awarded the 2007 Jefferson Press prize for Best New Voice in Fiction, explores the milieu of what post-Katrina New Orleans residents have come to call "the isle of denial"--a resilient and intact sliver of civilization surrounded by a sea of devastation. Evoking the comic grotesque legacy of Flannery O'Connor and John Kennedy Toole, these pieces inhabit a variety of piquant souls, including a Creole spinster, a transvestite plumber, a gambler who makes prosthetic eyes, a food critic who winds up with a mouthful of his best friend's ashes, and a grief-stricken young woman who sneaks a clock radio into her boyfriend's casket. They share a common trait of perverse denial in the face of historic or private defeat. Each story provides a window into aspects of the city and its' captivating neighborhoods while tendering startling revelations on elemental themes of death, sex, and restoration.
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