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.

About the Author
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. 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.

Reviews
"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



Book Information
ISBN 9780393322873
Author Paula Fox
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 311g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 15mm