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The God of Nightmares
In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of intellectuals, she discovers romance and sex, friendship and risk, her world mirrored by the steamy mystery of the French Quarter.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Jun 1st, 2002
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.34in - 5.56in - 0.56in - 0.48lb
- EAN: 9780393322873
- Categories: • Coming of Age• Literary• City Life
About the Author
Fox, Paula: - Paula Fox (1923--2017) was the author of Desperate Characters, The Widow's Children, A Servant's Tale, The God of Nightmares, Poor George, The Western Coast, and Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, among other books.
Brown, Rosellen: - Rosellen Brown is the author of the best-selling novel Before and After as well as Half a Heart, Civil Wars, and others. She lives in Chicago.
Praise for this book
For me, [Fox] has been an indispensable guide, for the perfection of her language and the sternness of her gaze. Anyone who owns a complete set of the reissued novels possesses a literary and moral treasure.--Rosellen Brown
Fox manages to avoid sentimentality...And that is at the heart of Fox's accomplishment in this novel about difficult romance: the eschewal of sentimentality and illusion in favor of real sentiment.-- "Washington Post"
Wonderfully rich.-- "New York Times Book Review"
Lyrically written and elegantly crafted...Fox brilliantly the fierce attentiveness and openness, bafflement, embarrassment and self-consciousness, as well as the wonder and joy of naive youth.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
A novel cast from the senses. The characters love and die in the watery warm light of New Orleans, in a language of pleasure that takes its ethos from that city's status in the American imagination as the capital of sensuality.-- "Washington Times"