Getting Off at Elysian Fields - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Getting Off at Elysian Fields write by John Pope. This book was released on 2015-10-19. Getting Off at Elysian Fields available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.”
Getting Off at Elysian Fields
Getting Off at Elysian Fields - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Getting Off at Elysian Fields write by . This book was released on 2015. Getting Off at Elysian Fields available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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 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'"--
When Blanche Met Brando
When Blanche Met Brando - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Blanche Met Brando write by Sam Staggs. This book was released on 2006-07-25. When Blanche Met Brando available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story behind the creation of Tennessee Williams's iconic play is partially drawn from interviews with surviving live performance cast members, shares insights into the connection between Vivien Leigh's personal life and the role of Blanche, and traces the history of the play's adaptation to film.
Last Car to Elysian Fields
Last Car to Elysian Fields - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Last Car to Elysian Fields write by James Lee Burke. This book was released on 2003-09-23. Last Car to Elysian Fields available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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).
Escape From Elysian Fields
Escape From Elysian Fields - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Escape From Elysian Fields write by C. Forrest Lundin. This book was released on 2021-09-08. Escape From Elysian Fields available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Civil War is over, everything is in flux. Two brothers haven't finished fighting. Lace fears Izzy won't make it home. If Buster gets there first, she's prepared to hide out in the secret room that's part of the underground railroad. She can't let Buster find her. Would he really do all he's been threatening her with for years? Lace doesn't want to chance finding out. Buster's only a day behind him. He needs to get to the house and tell everyone the war's over and they're free. Finding complete devastation and Mam, Pa, and Satin dead is a hard blow. Izzy hopes Lace is waiting for him in her grandpa's cabin. If she is, they must get on the move. When Buster finds the place burned to the ground, there's no telling what he'll do.
