What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. Help me find a collection of New Orleans themed short stories! Or by a New Orleans author. [s]
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Just want to acknowledge the above message is filled with double-speak. Sorry -- very anxious for some help!
Sarah, you got it! Thank you so much -- it was driving me crazy!
There's a book featuring a collection of short stories I used to read all the time in college. But now, I've forgotten the author and title -- it's driving me crazy.
It was a book of "New Orleans" themed stories -- or a New Orleans author.
The short stories included:
1) A young boy being wrongfully accused of misconduct by his teacher in catholic school while he finds young love. It features this exact line -- "If you ever wanted to know what eternity was, imagine a giant ball of Iron as big as the Earth in the middle of the universe. Every so often, a sparrow flies from our moon to that giant ball of iron and brushes it's wing against it. Back and forth. When that feathered wing has brushed the iron into a burnt cinder, eternity has only begun"
2) A pilot who believes his wife is cheating on him in the bayou with an "old fart".
3) An old "former cowboy" has grown old. We jump back and forth between his old days as a sex-driven, violent man -- and a modern, old man who's family despises him -- he also wets his pants waiting for them in the car.
4) A reporter joins a South African (?) warlord to write a story.
Please, please, please let me know if you have any leads. I will greatly appreciate it!