Nancy Lemann, Author Scribner Book Company $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-84114-4
In her latest comedy of manners, Lemann (Lives of the Saints) takes a modern-day Southern heroine and sends her out into the world laden with too many hoary ideas of Southern romance. The premise is much like that of an Edith Wharton novel,...
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Nancy Lemann, Author Alfred A. Knopf $15.95 (163p) ISBN 978-0-394-56037-3
The 1985-86 trials of Louisiana's flamboyant Gov. Edwin Edwards on charges of crooked hospital deals and other racketeering is reported by Lemann (Lives of the Saints), a New Orleans-born author with a New York City perspective. It is a compelling...
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Nancy Lemann, Author . Scribner $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1548-0
"There is nothing I love like decrepitude in a man." With that cheeky declaration, Lemann (The Fiery Pantheon) sums up the one-note plot of her latest novel, which tracks a fortyish woman's urge to have an affair with a geriatric...
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Nancy Lemann, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40304-3
Don't expect plot development in Lemann's meandering sequel to Lives of the Saints ; this essayistic novel requires the reader to adjust to its digressive flow and quirky, tragicomic narrator. As in that first novel, Lemann depicts Louisiana's...
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