Louise Brown, a drifting woman of indeterminate age, is devoted to New Orleans' granduer and gentility, especially as embodied in old Mr. Collier, his subject-to-drink older son, and his subject-to-falls younger son...
Acclaimed for her "gleeful and contagious love of language" (Los Angeles Times), Nancy Lemann evokes the tattered glamour of fading traditional Southern society like no other writer. Now she introduces the aristocratic Stewart clan of New Orleans, i...