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This book is a collection of interesting and beautiful stories. Each one is different from the other; unique and peculiar pathos that sometimes mingles with happiness and the little drama that makes the stories stunningly vibrant. Pleasant and interesting!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3521998 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Released on: 2006-10-01
• Format: Large Print
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Grace Elizabeth King was a prolific, well-read and pungent American author of Louisiana stories, history and biography. She was an eminent and aristocratic leader of literary and historical activities.

Customer Reviews

Stories of Louisiana women of the late 19th century
I first read about Grace King and her "Balcony Stories" in Christopher Benfey's "Degas in New Orleans." Benfey quotes King as writing about New Orleans balconies' secret life: "There is much of life passed on the balcony in a country where the summer unrolls in six moon-lengths, and where the nights have to come with a double endowment of vastness and splendor to compensate for the tedious, sun-parched days."

This quote caught my attention, as did Benfey's brief description of the stories -- all about women: Cajuns, Creoles, free women of color. And I had to read the stories for myself. I'm glad I did -- the stories are a window into a very specific time and place in an area of the South that seems a world of its own.
-- Phyllis Zimbler Miller