The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans

The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 031213570X
ISBN-13 : 9780312135706
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Book Synopsis The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans by : Andrei Codrescu

Download or read book The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans written by Andrei Codrescu and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-05-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twenty-six essays, Codrescu turns his skeptical, amused gaze to such topics as Plato's effect on American sex, the cultural meaning of Ed McMahon, baseball's literary underpinnings, his own conception in a Romanian darkroom, an cuisine under the Ceausescu dictatorship, as well as to larger subjects, including the suicide of communism, American culture and politics, and his adopted city of New Orleans.


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