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008 931117s1994 nyu 000 1 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)29428944
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050 00 $aPS3554.U325$bL68 1994
082 00 $a813/.54$220
100 1 $aDufresne, John.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90643049
245 10 $aLouisiana power & light /$ca novel by John Dufresne.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c1994.
263 $a9407
300 $axi, 306 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $aWelcome to Monroe, Louisiana, corrugated paper capital of the North Delta parishes, home of the Louisiana Passion Play and the Christian business weekly Prophet and Loss, a city whose library hosts a dysfunctional Great Books seminar, whose civil theater has produced a musical-comedy version of King Lear, and whose cypress tress have been known to drip snakes.
520 8 $aFolks here have been studying the genetically deficient Fontana family for generations, ever since Peregrine Fontana sloshed his way out of the swamp in 1840. Now it's 1972 and Billy Wayne Fontana is the last survivor of this sorry familial line.
520 8 $aIn this hilarious and wholly original tragi-comic romp you'll meet Billy Wayne, who has been raised and groomed for the priesthood but who leaves his spiritual calling for Earlene, a sassy woman who writes country music lyrics at her kitchen table; George Binwaddie, a Pakistani messiah and motel owner who is driven to extraordinary acts of violence; Angelo Candella, a Vietnam hero and State House official who runs his office from a wheelchair; and Moon Pie Fontana, Billy Wayne's offspring, a physically disabled child-star radio evangelist.
650 0 $aMarriage$zLouisiana$vFiction.
650 0 $aFamilies$zLouisiana$vFiction.
650 0 $aMen$zLouisiana$vFiction.
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2gsafd
740 0 $aLouisiana power and light.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3554.U325$iL68 1994