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Named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2013. Winner of rare double crown of starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. Publishers Weekly Featured Fiction selection. Simpson Weems is a 36yearold aspiring poet whose life has been on hold to the breaking point. All he needs to fulfill his potential is to move to San Francisco, but hes torn between his longheld dream of being a great artist and obligations to his aged, ailing mother and his emotionally volatile brother, the alldemanding Bartholomew. Will someone in his family have to die before he can get to California? And how might that be arranged? Written on location in New Orleans and set shortly before Hurricane Katrina, Elysian Fields combines menace, the comic strangeness of Flannery OConnor, and hints of magical realism to convey vivid, original characters and a Crescent City that is both recognizable and more offbeat and seductive than visitors usually see. PRAISE FOR ELYSIAN FIELDS A wholly involving story with Faulknerian characters in a fully realized setting. [A] tale of brotherly love and menace. . . . LaFlaurs descriptive talent shines. Fertile imagery drips like Spanish moss: the old buildings collapsing, as though the humiditysodden bricks were returning to mud, while cloud stacks glowed like the battlements of heaven. [Main character] Simpsons mental landscape is equally vivid, drawn with such empathy and depth that readers will forgive his perpetual indecision and may even root for him to carry out the removal of his nearderanged brother. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) [R]eaders will find the authors portrayal of New Orleans convincing and his characters fascinating and fully developed. . . . Life in the Weems family of 1999 New Orleans is anything but Elysian in this engrossing Southern Gothic snapshot. Publishers Weekly (starred review) A stunning debut . . . shades of Tennessee Williams, Faulkner and John Kennedy Toole. . . . LaFlaur gently and expertly pulls readers along with his characters, never flinching in the face of their foibles . . . Antigravity magazine (New Orleans) [A] wonderful debut novel, a southern gothic that is at times comedic, at times heartbreaking . . . In places Elysian Fields is as heavy as summer air in New Orleans, but it most definitely has a sense of humor. . . . [A]n impressive debut that will leave readers looking forward to LaFlaurs next offering. SelfPublishing Review
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