Death Wishing - Softcover

Scott, Laura Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935439391 ISBN 13: 9781935439394

Publisher: Ig Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

"This is a terrific story, beautifully written, and completely enthralling."--Dorothy Allison

In post-Katrina New Orleans, dying wishes can cure cancer, eliminate cats, bring back Elvis (1968 vintage), and turn the clouds orange. Divorced and disgraced up north, Victor hopes to live a carefree, drunken existence in the French Quarter, making capes and corsets and lusting for the girl who lives across the street--until the hysteria surrounding "death wishing" changes his world in ways he never imagined.

Laura Ellen Scott teaches fiction writing at George Mason University. Her work has been selected for The Wigleaf Top Fifty and Barrelhouse magazine's "Futures" issue. She has twice been nominated for Dzanc's Best of the Web 2010 anthology.

About this title

About the Author:

Laura Ellen Scott teaches fiction writing at George Mason University, where she is the Department's Academic Coordinator. Her work has been selected for The Wigleaf Top Fifty of 2009 and Barrelhouse magazine's Futures issue. She has twice been nominated for Dzanc's Best of the Web 2010 anthology.

Review:

"I admire the sentences, the clarity of mind, and characters who catch and keep our attention. Bob Dylan sings about a journey 'all the way from New Orleans to Jerusalem...' as way of apotheizing, scrutinizing, recognizing the world we live in. Laura Scott is on the way."--Alan Cheuse, Song of Slaves in the Desert

"A story as hot, sticky, and dangerous as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, seen through an imagination as kaleidoscopic as Kelly Link's."--Steve Himmer, The Bee-Loud Glade

"Something hazy is happening in Fat City. Laura Ellen Scott dials up loads of laughs amid the local color and NOLA cuisine in this madcap romp of a novel where last wishes come true, Elvis is back under newly orange clouds, coffee cups are bottomless, and street punks wear capes."--Richard Peabody, editor Gargoyle Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Ig Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935439391
• ISBN 13: 9781935439394
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280