Wide awake in the Pelican State
Subtitle: stories by contemporary Louisiana writers
By: edited by Ann Brewster Dobie ; with a foreword by Ernest J. Gaines.
Contributors: Dobie, Ann B.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Short stories, American -- Louisiana.; Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Wide Awake in the Pelican State?which mimics the title of Dinty W. Moore?s contribution to the collection?brings together twenty-one of the finest modern writers who claim Louisiana as home, having lived all or some part of their lives in the Pelican State. Each author shares the knack of telling a good story, a Louisiana tradition that dates back two hundred years to the tales told by African American griots and the stories swapped among Mississippi river workers on boats, in taverns, and around campfires." -- from the publisher.
Table of contents: title: The work of art / John Biguenet; title: The convict / James Lee Burke; title: Crickets / Robert Olen Butler; title: Where she was / Kelly Cherry; title: Fever / Moira Crone; title: The significance of importance / Albert Belisle Davis; title: The last man on earth to play the bones / Charles deGravelles; title: The freezer Jesus / John Dufresne; title: Calling / Richard Ford; title: A long day in November / Ernest J. Gaines; title: The king of slack / Louis Gallo; title: Welding with children / Tim Gautreaux; title: Sportfishing with Cameron / Norman German; title: Rich / Ellen Gilchrist; title: Mink / Joan Arbour Grant; title: Letting go / Shirley Ann Grau; title: Wide awake in Baton Rouge / Dinty W. Moore; title: It pours / Tim Parrish; title: Brownsville / Tom Piazza; title: What you do next / Nancy Richard; title: Camping out / James Wilcox.