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Author Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Title New Orleans sketches / [edited by Carvel Collins]
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 139 pages)
Contents Preface; Contents; Introduction; NEW ORLEANS: January-February, 1925; MIRRORS OF CHARTRES STREET: February 8, 1925; DAMON AND PYTHIAS UNLIMITED: February 15, 1925; HOME: February 22, 1925; JEALOUSY: March 1, 1925; CHEEST: April 5, 1925; OUT OF NAZARETH: April 12, 1925; THE KINGDOM OF GOD: April 26, 1925; THE ROSARY: May 3, 1925; THE COBBLER: May 10, 1925; CHANCE: May 17, 1925; SUNSET: May 24, 1925; THE KID LEARNS: May 31, 1925; THE LIAR: July 26, 1925; EPISODE: August 16, 1925; COUNTRY MICE: September 20, 1925; YO HO AND TWO BOTTLES OF RUM: September 27, 1925
Summary In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry (The Marble Faun), had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the University of Mississippi student newspaper. He had served a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Corps and while working in a New Haven bookstore had become acquainted with the wife of the writer Sherwood Anderson. In his first six months in New Orleans, where the Andersons were living, Faulkner made his initial foray into serious fiction writing. Here
Notes "A Banner book"--Page 4 of cover
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Subject FICTION -- Short Stories (single author)
SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction
Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
Author Collins, Carvel, 1912-1990.
LC no. 2021695028
ISBN 9781604734829
1604734825