Flight risk
Subtitle: memoirs of a New Orleans bad boy
By: James Nolan
Series: Willie Morris books in memoir and biography; Willie Morris books in memoir and biography
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781496811271
Subjects: American Authors; Biography
Description: "Nolan, a fifth-generation New Orleans native, offers up an intimate portrait both of his insular hometown and his generation's counterculture. Flight runs as a theme throughout the book, which begins with Nolan's escape from the gothic mental hospital to which his parents committed the teenaged poet during the tumult of 1968. This breakout is followed by the self-styled revolutionary's hair-raising flight from a Guatemalan jail, and years later, by the author's bolt from China, where he ditched his teaching position and collectivist ideals"--Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: Running ever since; title: Sixty-eight; title: The unspoken; title: The old country; title: Paper sparrows and the back sexton; title: A fanatic heart; title: The diamond question mark; title: The open road; title: Away at sea; title: Stairway to paradise; title: The garden of Eden; title: What was behind the green door; title: Scene of the crime: a love story; title: First morning; title: I'll be watching you; title: The dream act; title: About to storm; title: Our hell in high water; title: Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row; title: Black and white, with brown water all over; title: At the end of the open road; title: Hope chest; title: Alone in the urban museum; title: Parchment and laptop; title: The middle of nowhere; title: One year and a day: a recipe for gumbo and mourning.