Christmas Stories from Louisiana

ISBN: 1578065887

Author: Robbins, Dorothy Dodge

Condition: New

Review"(The Editors) have skillfully selected stories that represent the various facets of Louisiana life. Apart from being an enjoyable collection of individual stories, this book presents broader themes which investigate a region reinventing the meaning of a holiday. . ." Melissa Anne Goslin, Arkansas Review.Product DescriptionIncludes stories by Robert Olen Butler, Kelly Cherry, Kate Chopin, Debra Gray De Nous and O'Neil De Noux, Laura J. Dulaney, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Harnett T. Kane, James Knudsen, Patty Friedmann Muchmore, Solomon Northrup, Katherine Anne Porter, Kenneth Robbins, Lyle Saxon, Genaro Ky Ly Smith, Cheryl St. Germain, and Ruth McEnery StuartNo others celebrate the season quite like the Cajuns, the Creoles, and the sundry peoples who populate the Bayou State. Louisiana Christmas is a festive fais do do, whether a buoyant communal celebration around a bonfire on a riverbank or a quiet reverie before a warm fireplace.Snowflakes serve only as trimming in these stories about the basic themes of Christmastime-the expectant birth of a special baby, a family homecoming, and the exchanging of gifts. In these sixteen stories the traditional winter wonderland of icicles and sleigh rides is missing, for Christmas in Louisiana can be subtropical. The grass may be green, the roses still in bloom, and the children in shorts.Featuring stories both by widely notable and by more recently applauded writers, this collection of fiction and memory pieces reveals the myriad faces of Christmastime in Louisiana.Each story in this fascinating holiday anthology is enhanced with an illustration by the acclaimed Louisiana artist Francis X. Pavy.In these stories of the many moods of Christmastime the settings are shaded by dark and light as the spirit of the season colors them. The locales are as various as a back alley in the Crescent City, a maximum-security cell in the Angola prison, or the cotton fields beside the Cane River.As the authors explore a number of universal Christmas themes, they reflect them in the distinctive character of Louisiana and share a sense of more than two centuries of Louisiana culture and tradition.Book DescriptionFiction that ranges over the many moods and spirits of Yuletide in the Pelican StateFrom the PublisherFiction that ranges over the many moods and spirits of Yuletide in the Pelican StateEdited by Dorothy Dodge Robbins and Kenneth Robbins, with stories by Robert Olen Butler, Kelly Cherry, Kate Chopin, Debra Gray De Nous and O'Neil De Noux, Laura J. Dulaney, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Harnett T. Kane, James Knudsen, Patty Friedmann Muchmore, Solomon Northrup, Katherine Anne Porter, Kenneth Robbins, Lyle Saxon, Genaro Ky Ly Smith, Cheryl St. Germain, and Ruth McEnery Stuart. Illustrations by Francis X. Pavy.From the AuthorDedicated to our children, Daniel and Madeline.From the Inside FlapFiction that ranges over the many moods and spirits of Yuletide in the Pelican StateAbout the AuthorDorothy Dodge Robbins is an associate professor and the Charlotte Lewis Endowed Professor of English at Louisiana Tech University. She has published in Centennial Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Quarterly, and Texas Review. Kenneth Robbins is a professor of the Performing Arts at Louisiana Tech University and is the author of four novels---The Baptism of Howie Cobb, Buttermilk Bottoms, In the Shelter of the Fold, and The City of Churches. Francis X. Pavy lives and works in Lafayette, Louisiana.