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Rampart and Toulouse
by
Kristin Fouquet (Goodreads Author)
Rampart & Toulouse consists of three short stories and a novella. Becoming Obsolete is a story of a young apprentice who signs on with Lucky's Refrigeration Repair, a move which has him pondering the past and future of his chosen profession.
A lonely single mother with a full wine cellar must make a decision when a stranger appears at her courtyard gate in the story Va...more
A lonely single mother with a full wine cellar must make a decision when a stranger appears at her courtyard gate in the story Va...more
Paperback, 117 pages
Published
August 15th 2011
by Rank Stranger Press
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This is a lovely collection of quirky, melancholy and even unsettling stories. I found all of the stories and characters so interesting that I'd have a hard time choosing a favorite, but I found the frightening headspace and mental deterioration of the character in 'Paris is the Pretty One' an incredibly fascinating journey to witness and, for me, read a bit like a horror story. I also found the effective immersion in the setting and fun characters, as well as the way they interacted in 'Rampart...more
(this review originally appeared at Outsider Writers Collective)
Kristin Fouquet writes with a sense of poignancy, a defiance of the trite and the clever, a mode that practically forced me to fall in love with her writing back in the Twenty Stories days. With her second book, Rampart & Toulouse: a Novella and Other Stories, I am quite happy to say that Fouquet has compromised nothing. She can still tell a beautiful story, one subtly complex, but altogether “normal,” while delivering a final l...more
Kristin Fouquet writes with a sense of poignancy, a defiance of the trite and the clever, a mode that practically forced me to fall in love with her writing back in the Twenty Stories days. With her second book, Rampart & Toulouse: a Novella and Other Stories, I am quite happy to say that Fouquet has compromised nothing. She can still tell a beautiful story, one subtly complex, but altogether “normal,” while delivering a final l...more
I found out about this book thanks to a writer friend on mine, one whose taste I respect without reservation. He'd picked it as one of his top 5 recommendations of last year, so I had to have a copy.
I'm delighted that I ended up with one.
The core of the book is the novella 'Rampart And Toulouse'.
Rampart and Toulouse it the corner at which a fine old building stands. It holds the charm of its age and is showing signs of wear, a little like a number of its inhabitants.
Into the building moves a y...more
I'm delighted that I ended up with one.
The core of the book is the novella 'Rampart And Toulouse'.
Rampart and Toulouse it the corner at which a fine old building stands. It holds the charm of its age and is showing signs of wear, a little like a number of its inhabitants.
Into the building moves a y...more
As in her first book, "Twenty Stories," also published by Rank Stranger Press, Kristin Fouquet unveils in "Rampart & Toulouse" tales of increasing length. But there is a greater intensity to this new work that delves more deeply into moral and even metaphysical dilemmas. As one of the new literary voices emerging in post Katrina New Orleans, Fouquet captures in each of these stories the sense of longing and isolation (in some cases bordering on desperation) that drapes the city, as well as t...more
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I’m not sure which came first: the photography or the writing. What I do know is that Kristin Fouquet’s love of photography infuses her storytelling. Her tales have that feel of old photographs you discover in a thrift store bin — you don’t know these people, but you can see their lives boiled down into that moment. It’s because of this that the stories in Rampart & Toulouse and her previous collection Twenty Stories never feel over-told. They unfold simply and capture that poignant moment f...more
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I finished Rampart with tears in my eyes, joy in my heart and a certain knowledge in my mind the what I've always believed is true: The Human Race can do many things, some good, some bad, but -- sometimes -- we can do something Wondeful. If it were possible I'd punch the "star rating" button five more times. Kristin Fouquet, with the three stories, a novella and some of the most haunting photographs you have ever seen, that comprise Rampart and Toulouse, will make you glad you're a human being.
Kristin Fouquet has introduced me to characters I will never forget. Sometimes dark, sometimes funny, sometimes quirky and always memorable. I enjoyed all the stories but really loved the characters in Rampart & Toulouse. A wonderful read!
A charming and solid sophmore book by this New Orleans writer and Photographer, these stories and the title novella capture the nuances of the city in the lives and narratives of her sympathetic characters.
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Kristin Fouquet is a writer and photographer in the lovely city of New Orleans. Her short fiction and fine art and street photography have been published widely online and in print. She is the author of Twenty Stories (Rank Stranger Press 2009), a collection of short literary fiction, and Rampart and Toulouse (Rank Stranger Press, 2011), a novella and other stories.
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