| Author: | Paula Fox | ISBN: | 9780393342109 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company | Publication: | June 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company | Language: | English |
| Author: | Paula Fox |
| ISBN: | 9780393342109 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publication: | June 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Language: | English |
"Vividly rendered...haunting....[Paula Fox] writes with silken ease and a sensitivity to nuance."—Newsday
In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of intellectuals, she discovers romance and sex, friendship and risk, her world mirrored by the steamy mystery of the French Quarter.
"Vividly rendered...haunting....[Paula Fox] writes with silken ease and a sensitivity to nuance."—Newsday
In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of intellectuals, she discovers romance and sex, friendship and risk, her world mirrored by the steamy mystery of the French Quarter.
