This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers - George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin - as well as three prolific twentieth-century authors who called the Crescent City ""home"" at various times: William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Walker Percy. In the book's final essay, Lewis P. Simpson reflects on the history of New Orleans as a literary center, giving special emphasis to Percy's The Moviegoer and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.
- ISBN10 0807117323
- ISBN13 9780807117323
- Publish Date 1 August 1992
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Louisiana State University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 136
- Language English