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III, Joel Lafayette Fletcher

 
9781496844699: With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life
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ISBN 10 : 1496844696 ISBN 13 : 9781496844699
Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2023

Synopsis

With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life chronicles the fortunate life of a man born in the Cajun country of Louisiana and his interaction with the three distinct parts of his home state: the swampy, laissez-faire South where he was born, the red clay hills and piney woods of northern Louisiana where his relatives lived, and exotic New Orleans, where he was educated.

Author Joel Lafayette Fletcher III examines his childhood on the campus of what is now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where his father, Joel Lafayette Fletcher Jr., was president for twenty-five years, to his time as a student at Tulane. The book follows Fletcher through his service as a naval officer--when he began to admit to himself, accept, and explore who he really was--to his life in Europe and, eventually, Virginia where he now resides. With Hawks and Angels intimately explores the life of a young man growing up in the racially segregated Deep South while coming to terms with being gay at a time when being out was not socially acceptable.

Based on his personal journals and recollections and filled with the unique characters he met along the way, With Hawks and Angels is the culmination of writing that, for Fletcher, was a way of holding onto an important part of his true self that for many years he felt compelled to hide.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joel Lafayette Fletcher III served as an officer in the US Navy and lived abroad for a dozen years. He co-owned a language school in Florence, Italy, and worked in the field of educational exchange in Paris and London. For the past forty-plus years, he has been an art dealer specializing in American and European art of the twentieth century.

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Éditeur
University Press of Mississippi
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496844696
ISBN 13 
9781496844699
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
277
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