Description: SIGNED Louisiana Power & Light by John Dufresne 1st Edition/4th Printing Very Good. Slight soiling of page edges and edges of boards. No other flaws. Jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar sleeve and is bright and unmarked. Weird, funny, Southern magical realism. Not Barry Hannah levels of weird, more of a gentle weirdness. A very good read! About the book: Welcome to Monroe, Louisiana, corrugated paper capital of the North Delta parishes, home of the Louisiana Passion Play and the Christian business weekly Prophet and Loss, a city whose library hosts a dysfunctional Great Books seminar, whose civil theater has produced a musical-comedy version of King Lear, and whose cypress tress have been known to drip snakes. Folks here have been studying the genetically deficient Fontana family for generations, ever since Peregrine Fontana sloshed his way out of the swamp in 1840. Now it's 1972 and Billy Wayne Fontana is the last survivor of this sorry familial line. In this hilarious and wholly original tragi-comic romp you'll meet Billy Wayne, who has been raised and groomed for the priesthood but who leaves his spiritual calling for Earlene, a sassy woman who writes country music lyrics at her kitchen table; George Binwaddie, a Pakistani messiah and motel owner who is driven to extraordinary acts of violence; Angelo Candella, a Vietnam hero and State House official who runs his office from a wheelchair; and Moon Pie Fontana, Billy Wayne's offspring, a physically disabled child-star radio evangelist. Hold on, this is a wild and wacky ride through the Louisiana backwaters. As quirky and imaginative as the best of John Irving, culled with the literary affects of Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and William Faulkner - all of whom Dufresne was compared to in reviews from his debut collection The Way That Water Enters Stone - this first novel about marriage, politics, friendship, love, and the quest for salvation will break your heart and make you laugh at the same time.
Price: 17 USD
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Signed
Author: DUFRESNE, John
Region: North America
Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company
Topic: Novels
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Modified Item: Yes
Year Printed: 1994
Original/Facsimile: Original
