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4.0 out of 5 stars
Like rocking on a Louisiana porch on a starry night,
By mindycarpenter@hotmail.com (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Louisiana Power and Light (Mass Market Paperback)
I found this to be the masculine version of the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Dufresne has written gorgeously flawed characters who sparkle and tarnish themselves on every page. These are the people small towns are made of--or at least, the people we imagine exist through wonderful southern novelists. It's a slow and luxurious read, like a humid summer day, but worth the patience. The ending, despite my predictions, was a surprising and poignant finale.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Gumbo of the delicious humor of ill fate in a southern town,
By A Customer
This review is from: Louisiana Power and Light (Mass Market Paperback)
The story of the folks of the fictional town of Limoges, Louisiana,a place where one family's pre-destined ill fate stirs up drama after drama. The characters DuFresne creates are so true to life in their matter-of-fact emotional extremes and absurdities that we are pulled into each and every one of their lives. With unforgettable characters like Moonpie and the tragic family lineage he has shouldered, the book is the quickest most well-written prose I have read in a long time. Laughing and crying through countless dramatic encounters the story's charactersgo through, I found myself a resident of Limoges for three months after I finished reading the book. One of the best qualities of DuFresne's writing lies in his ability to display humor, being one of the most important and warm human characteristics, as an instinctive defense mechanisms in playful and wonderfully surprising ways. I read this book close to seven months ago but can not get the charcters out of my mind. I would like not to divulge much of the story line since that would detract from your reading experience. Read it and you will remind yourself why you love literature be proud that we have such imaginative literary writers living in America during such turbulent times. Isn't it time all of us picked up a book that was NOT a national bestseller and read it for the sheer enjoyment of the playful words and literary merit? Reminiscent of Nabokov with a dash of John Irving and Tennesse Williams with the surreal literary quality of Paul Auster, "Louisiana Power & Light" should be a most enjoyable read for all of you that still believe in literature and its inherent love of life.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Moon Pies and Venusians,
By Jim Kaznosky (Guttenberg, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Louisiana Power and Light (Mass Market Paperback)
...Billy Wayne Fontana is obsessed with escaping the fate of his ancestors-a quirky, unlucky life, with a rather brutal and bizarre death. Upon giving up the priesthood for marriage, he believes that he can avoid his fate. Its a southern gothic romp with a humorous edge to it. You don't have to read through many pages before you can see the wit that Dufresne is capable of.I hate to say that a book is an excellent first novel. It should be based on its own merits, but this is a certainly an excellent first novel. I look forward to reading more of his writing.
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