No Place, Louisiana
By: Martin Pousson
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781573229760
Subjects: Married people; Fiction
Description: Compared to Dorothy Allison and Frank McCourt, debut novelist Martin Pousson has written a masterly portrait of the American Dream gone wrong, set in Louisiana's Cajun country. When marriage to a man with a high school diploma fails to make a waitress's dreams come true, her children become the focus of her fiercest hopes and most damaging desires.