New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City
| Book | The Exploration of Louisiana |
| Editor | John Miller (5), Genevieve Anderson |
| Publisher | Chronicle Books |
| Copyright Holder (Selection) | John Miller (5) |
| Contributing Writer | Anonymous, Walker Percy, Louis Armstrong, Anne Rice, Zora Neale Hurston, Lafcadio Hearn, John Kennedy Toole, John James Audubon, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, William Makepeace Thackeray, M. Dumont, Ishmael Reed, William Faulkner, Ellen Gilchrist, Mark Twain, Carl Sandburg, Kate Chopin, John Dos Passos, Walt Whitman, Robert Penn Warren, Lyle Saxon |
| About/Subject | New Orleans |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | San Francisco |
| Copyright | 1992 |
| Pages / Font | 217 pages |
| Price | $12.95 U.S. |
| ISBN 10 | 0-8118-0059-8 |
| Barcode (EAN) | 9780811800594 |
| EAN 5 | 90000 |
| Chapters | Introduction by Andrei Codrescu Anonymous: The Exploration of Louisiana Walker Percy: The Moviegoer [excerpt] Louis Armstrong: Growing Up in New Orleans [excerpt] Anne Rice: The Feast of All Saints [excerpt] Zora Neale Hurston: Hoodoo [excerpt from Mules and Men] Lafcadio Hearn: A Creole Mystery John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces [excerpt] John James Audubon: New Orleans Journal Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire [excerpt] Truman Capote: Dazzle [from Music for Chameleons] William Thackeray: A Mississippi Bubble M. Dumont: Indian Troubles and Hangmen Ishmael Reed: Mumbo Jumbo [excerpt] William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! [excerpt] Ellen Gilchrist: Rich [from In the Land of Dreamy Dreams] Mark Twain: Southern Sports [from Life on the Mississippi] Carl Sandburg: A Scar for Abraham Lincoln [excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years] Kate Chopin: Cavanelle John Dos Passos: Funiculi Funicula [excerpt from The 42nd Parallel] Walt Whitman: Three New Orleans Sketches (Peter Funk, Esq.; Daggerdraw Bowieknife, Esq.; Timothy Goujon, V.O.N.O. (Vender of Oysters in New Orleans)) Robert Penn Warren: Mason City [excerpt from All the King's Men] Lyle Saxon: Gumbo Ya Ya Supersitions [from Gumbo Ya Ya] Author Biographies |
| Notes | Printed in the United States of America |
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