With Hawks and Angels
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With Hawks and Angels

Episodes from a Southern Life

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

With Hawks and Angels

Episodes from a Southern Life

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Easter Weekend, 1873
  10. 2. Home
  11. 3. Uncle Will
  12. 4. Fannie’s Gin Soup
  13. 5. The New Coach’s Wife
  14. 6. Black Lives That Mattered
  15. 7. Fricassee, Gumbo, and Other Beasts
  16. 8. My Decisive Moment?
  17. 9. The Camellia Pageant
  18. 10. My Father Is Kissed by a Frenchman While the Bishop Watches, and I Become a Francophile
  19. 11. Growing Up Nervous
  20. 12. Aunt Bill’s Biscuits
  21. 13. The Long and Short Life of Guinevere
  22. 14. Robert Rauschenberg and the Sweet Potato Queen
  23. 15. The Republican Party Comes to Louisiana
  24. 16. Louisiana Live Oak Society
  25. 17. Les Vaches de M. Mouton
  26. 18. The Pink Dress
  27. 19. My Beautiful Sister
  28. 20. Hullabaloo
  29. 21. Information from the Other Side
  30. 22. Learn the English of Today!
  31. 23. Riso
  32. 24. Da Nello
  33. 25. Loretta
  34. 26. Mr. Ambassador
  35. 27. Count Francesco
  36. 28. The Second Act of Parsifal?
  37. 29. Paris, Finally
  38. 30. ThÊrèse Bonney and the Repudiation of Chic
  39. 31. M. de Lafayette Chez Les Lafayettes
  40. 32. Eating Paris
  41. 33. The Other Ms. Guggenheim
  42. 34. Lunch at the HĂ´tel du Parc Royal
  43. 35. The Emira
  44. 36. Stealing Angels
  45. 37. 9 Lower Mall
  46. 38. Ein Wanderjahr
  47. 39. The Return of the Prodigal Son
  48. Epilogue
  49. About the Author