Erl King by Michel Tournier

Erl King by Michel Tournier

In this collection of interrelated short stories, James Nolan swings wide open the courtyard gates of a city fabled both for its good times and bad. With ten new stories plus ten from his acclaimed previous volume, Perpetual Care, he introduces us to a quirky village of universal characters at crisis moments: white, black, and Hispanic; young, middle-aged, and elderly; straight and gay; women and men. We meet fatherless boys, Creole spinsters, and lying hustlers, a pregnant teenager, a concert pianist searching for his roots, a crooked homicide detective, a Carnival-parade king hiding in a Dunkin' Donuts, a pistol-packing babysitter, and a codger who plots to blow up an overpass. Bookended by two post-Katrina stories, this collection takes us from the secretive hive of the French Quarter to decaying cemeteries, from Gentilly to Uptown to family dramas in the suburbs. With mordant dark humor, James Nolan paints a wry, disturbing but affectionately human portrait of his hometown for those who think they already know New Orleans, and what it means. But until you turn the addictive pages of these stories, you don't not really.

Michel Tournier is the author of more than twenty books, including the prizewinning Friday and The Ogre. Jonathan F. Krell is an associate professor of French at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Tournier elementaire and the translator of Tournier's The Mirror of Ideas (Nebraska 1998).

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ISBN 13	9780413533609
ISBN 10	0413533603
Title	Erl King
Author	Michel Tournier
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	1983-11-10
Number of pages	320
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