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Lives of the Saints

Lives of the Saints

Lemann, Nancy
Dyer, Geoff

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN13: 9798896230281
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.63 Width: 4.96 Depth: 7.87
Language: English
Fresh out of college in New England, a young woman returns home to New Orleans and is quickly pulled back into the city's wastrel-youth contingent in this cult-classic novel of love and decadence, now with a new introduction.

Nancy Lemann's voice is one of the most unusual in American fiction, unabashedly digressive, weirdly and wonderfully confiding, as witty as it is melancholy, an endless surprise. Hers is a voice born of and at odds with her native New Orleans, a voice that takes on and wonders at the ramshackle realities not just of the deep South but of America. Lives of the Saints, her first book, was a revelation of new talent. Reappearing here, several decades later, it is simply a revelation.

Claude Collier made the world seem kind, says Louise Brown, beginning a tale of Violent Love, Breakdowns, Moods, and Felonious Drunkenness that floats from one lush, green, sweltering New Orleans evening to another. When Louise returns home after four years of college in New England, she bemusedly finds herself reimmersed in New Orleans society's wastrel-youth contingent. At the center of this gin-fueled hurricane is Claude Collier, rumpled, accident-prone, supremely sweet--and desperate. For Claude, Louise is his steadying focus; for Louise, Claude is the only man who can cause her heart to break into a million pieces on the floor.

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