Mozart and Leadbelly
Stories and Essays
New York : Knopf, 2005.
Format: Ebook
Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 158 pages)
Collects five stories, set in Louisiana, that capture the joys and sorrows of rural Southern life, accompanied by prose works that chronicle the author's life as a writer, and the people and places that he has encountered.
Contents:
Essays: Miss Jane and I -- Mozart and Leadbelly -- A very big order: reconstructing identity -- Bloodline in ink -- Aunty and the black experience in Louisiana -- Writing A lesson before dying -- Stories: Christ walked down Market Street -- The turtles -- Boy in the double-breasted suit -- Mary Louise -- My grandpa and the haint -- In his own words: Ernest J. Gaines in conversation -- A literary salon: oyster/shrimp po'boys, chardonnay, and conversation with Ernest J. Gaines: Ernest J. Gaines, Marcia Gaudet, and Darrell Bourque.
Subjects:
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019 -- Childhood and youth.
Gaines, Ernest J.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American authors -- Biography.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Literatur.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
California -- Biography.
Louisiana -- Biography.
Louisiana.
Schwarze.
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019 -- Childhood and youth.
Gaines, Ernest J.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American authors -- Biography.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Literatur.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
California -- Biography.
Louisiana -- Biography.
Louisiana.
Schwarze.
ISBN:
9780307426956
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Ebook
Electronic resource.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on print version record.