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Flight risk : memoirs of a New Orleans bad boy / James Nolan.
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- ISBN: 9781496811271
- ISBN: 1496811275
- Physical Description: 270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
- Copyright: c2017.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Running ever since -- Sixty-eight -- The unspoken -- The old country -- Paper sparrows and the back sexton -- A fanatic heart -- The diamond question mark -- The open road -- Away at sea -- Stairway to paradise -- The garden of Eden -- What was behind the green door -- Scene of the crime: a love story -- First morning -- I'll be watching you -- The dream act -- About to storm -- Our hell in high water -- Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row -- Black and white, with brown water all over -- At the end of the open road -- Hope chest -- Alone in the urban museum -- Parchment and laptop -- The middle of nowhere -- One year and a day: a recipe for gumbo and mourning. |
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| Subject: | Nolan, James, 1947- Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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Flight Risk : Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy
James Nolan, New Orleans, Louisiana, a fifth-generation native, is a widely published fiction writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Recent books include You Don't Know Me: New and Selected Stories (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Southern Fiction) and the novel Higher Ground (awarded a William Faulkner/Wisdom Gold Medal in the Novel). He has taught at universities in San Francisco, Florida, Barcelona, Madrid, and Beijing, as well as in New Orleans.
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