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| Author | : Mark Gregory LaFlaur |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780615729862 |
Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2013. * Winner of rare "double crown" of starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. * Publishers Weekly Featured Fiction selection. Simpson Weems is a 36-year-old aspiring poet whose life has been on hold -- to the breaking point. All he needs to fulfill his potential is to move to San Francisco, but he's torn between his long-held dream of being a great artist and obligations to his aged, ailing mother and his emotionally volatile brother, the all-demanding Bartholomew. Will someone in his family have to die before he can get to California? And how might that be arranged?Written "on location" in New Orleans and set shortly before Hurricane Katrina, Elysian Fields combines menace, the comic strangeness of Flannery O'Connor, and hints of magical realism to convey vivid, original characters and a Crescent City that is both recognizable and more offbeat and seductive than visitors usually see.PRAISE FOR "ELYSIAN FIELDS""A wholly involving story with Faulknerian characters in a fully realized setting. [A] tale of brotherly love and menace. . . . LaFlaur's descriptive talent shines. Fertile imagery drips like Spanish moss: the old buildings collapsing, 'as though the humidity-sodden bricks were returning to mud,' while 'cloud stacks glowed like the battlements of heaven.' [Main character] Simpson's mental landscape is equally vivid, drawn with such empathy and depth that readers will forgive his perpetual indecision and may even root for him to carry out the removal of his near-deranged brother." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"[R]eaders will find the author's portrayal of New Orleans convincing and his characters fascinating and fully developed. . . . Life in the Weems family of 1999 New Orleans is anything but Elysian in this engrossing Southern Gothic snapshot." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A stunning debut . . . shades of Tennessee Williams, Faulkner and John Kennedy Toole. . . . LaFlaur gently and expertly pulls readers along with his characters, never flinching in the face of their foibles . . ." --Antigravity magazine (New Orleans)"[A] wonderful debut novel, a southern gothic that is at times comedic, at times heartbreaking . . . In places Elysian Fields is as heavy as summer air in New Orleans, but it most definitely has a sense of humor. . . . [A]n impressive debut that will leave readers looking forward to LaFlaur's next offering." --Self-Publishing Review
| Author | : Tom Evans |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781393130659 |
| Author | : James Lee Burke |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2003-09-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 074326097X |
Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series. For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers. When Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn’t realize is that in doing so he is inviting into his life—and into the lives of those around him—an ancestral evil that could destroy them all. A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature and the darkest corners of the heart, and filled with the kinds of unforgettable characters that are the hallmarks of his novels, Last Car to Elysian Fields is Burke in top form in the kind of lush, atmospheric thriller that is “an outstanding entry in an excellent series” (Publishers Weekly).
| Author | : John Pope |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2015-10-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1496803760 |
No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft. These pieces in Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from the New Orleans “Times-Picayune” are full-blooded life stories with accounts of great achievements, dubious dabblings, unavoidable foibles, relationships gone sour, and happenstances that turn out to be life-changing. To be sure, there are stories about Carnival monarchs, great philanthropists, and a few politicians. But because New Orleans embraces eccentric behavior, there are stories of people who colored way outside the lines. For instance, there was the doctor who used his plasma to make his flowers grow, and the philanthropist who took money she had put aside for a fur coat to underwrite the lawsuit that desegregated Tulane University. A letter carrier everyone loved turned out to have been a spy during World War II, and a fledgling lawyer changed his lifelong thoughts about race when he saw blind people going into a Christmas party through separate doors—one for white people and another for African Americans. Then there was the punctilious judge who got down on his hands and knees to edge his lawn—with scissors. Because New Orleans funerals are distinctive, the author includes accounts of four that he covered, complete with soulful singing and even some dancing. As a popular, local bumper sticker indisputably declares, “New Orleans—We Put the Fun in Funeral.”
| Author | : Mark K. Allen |
| Publisher | : Mark K. Allen |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 2008-11 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0578001322 |
A Must-Have Reference for both Business and IT Professionals! - Discover and Deal with how IT works in the real world - Understand Information People and what makes them tick - Build and maintain powerful and positive relationships between the Business and IT that move your Business forward - Create and manage effective IT teams that get the job done on time, within budget, and increase company revenue - Understand and manage the Business Politics of IT - Make sense of Business Technology and have it work for you - Get familiar with new methodologies that are influencing the future of technology - Learn to avoid the pitfalls that result in IT project failures and waste money - Inspire Business teams to focus on obtaining the unfair advantage in their industry through the intelligent and managed use of technology - Discover how to use meaningful technology to improve the quality of life of everyone who wants and needs it
| Author | : Nathan W. Pyle |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2020-06-16 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 0063022648 |
WATCH THE ANIMATED SERIES AUGUST 9 ON APPLE TV+ New York Times Bestseller The sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Strange Planet, featuring more hilarious and poignant adventures from the fascinating inhabitants of Nathan W. Pyle's colorful world. In this eagerly awaited sequel, Nathan takes us back to his charming and instantly recognizable planet colored in bright pinks, blues, greens, and purples, providing more escapades, jokes, and p h r a s e s. Nathan mixes his most popular Instagram comics with more than thirty original works created exclusively for this second volume to explore four major topics: traditions, nature, emotions, and knowledge. He inducts new and longtime fans into a strangely familiar world and its culture, from “cohesion” (marriage) to “mild poison” (alcohol) to the full lyrics to “The Small Eight-Legged Creature” (sung to the tune of The Itsy-Bitsy Spider). Bright, colorful, and whimsical—yet charmingly familiar—Stranger Planet is out-of-this-world fun.
| Author | : Simon Blow |
| Publisher | : J M Dent & Sons Limited |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1983-01-01 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9780460045346 |
Hunting has long been a feature of English country life, especially since it became highly fashionable in the late Victorian period the point at which Simon Blow begins his narrative. He includes the stories of various hunting packs such as the Belvoir, the Pytchley and the Beaufort."
| Author | : Victoria J. Hyla |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 684 |
| Release | : 2020-06-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1728363829 |
“It’s the mistakes and imperfections that make things truly beautiful.” Haunted by fractured childhood memories and trauma born from her mother’s death and her father’s abuse, Elyse Brennan Wylder journeys to Paris hoping to find answers about her mother’s past and perhaps her own future. With only an old photograph to guide her, she is thrown into a world far beyond anything she’s ever imagined—both good and evil. After meeting Jérôme Sauveterre, an intriguing and passionate Parisian artist, Elyse quickly finds her life, her world, and her heart opening wide as they delve deeper into her mother’s story and learn what love and intimacy really mean. As Elyse and Jérôme dig into the past, how far can they go before it’s too late to turn back? Will they find a light at the end of the darkness and awake in Elysian Fields? Find out as this story of love and loss enfolds as the conclusion to the Hearts Drawn Wyld trilogy (Book 1, In Death We Part; Book 2, Running in the Mists).
| Author | : Craig Bell |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 613 |
| Release | : 2002-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1401025781 |
| Author | : Craig Bell |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 578 |
| Release | : 2002-07-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1469122006 |
This opening novel of a projected tetralogy called The Masters of Destiny examines the recurrent American conundrum, the issue of race. At the core stands two families related first by ownership and then, because of the infidelity of a plantation master, by blood, - establishing on a familial level an anguished, disorderly, and insoluble relationship paralleling the great forces of the historical. Fully engaging a social, sexual, and even violent milieu, the story portrays the clash of opposing cultures in scenes ranging from the American South to New England and Europe. The Civil War is made vivid by the sheer terror, horror, and confusion of both civilian and soldier. The book culminates with the journey made by a plantation 'heroine' and her aged slave through the collapse of the white Southern world - and the corollary release of the black - to Washington in search of her imprisoned Confederate husband. Part social mosaic, psychological analysis, historical study, and of course romance and drama, Lost in The Elysian Fields reveals the characters' personality by their response to these epical events which either compel them into action or sweep them into oblivion.
