Blaine Lourd
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of the modern classics The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer and The Liars' Club by Mary Karr, Blaine Lourd's Born on the Bayou is a powerful gothic memoir set in the bayous and oil towns of 1970s Louisiana. Coonass: [koon-as] (noun, slang, from the French conasse), a term of endearment and an expression of cultural and ethnic pride. So echoes this all-important definition throughout this good-humored memoir of growing up in the South....