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About this book
"A comic opera…tuneful, playful." — New York Times Book Review
In Shiver-de-Freeze, Louisiana (population 375), friends and family have gathered for the impending nuptials of Grisham Loudermilk and Ariane Thevenot. This will be no ordinary wedding—not when Boudou Fontana, the last of the star-crossed Fontana clan, the conjoined twins Tous-les-Doux, and a host of others are involved.
From a writer of rare grace and comic genius comes a "warm, sad, and hilarious ride through the carnival of life" ( Dallas Morning News). Rich in character and insight into the vagaries and varieties of love and memory, Deep in the Shade of Paradise is John Dufresne at his funny and thoughtful best.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. The Woman Shall Answer: I Will
- 2. Father Away
- 3. Starlight Lit My Lonesomeness
- 4. Scrambled I
- 5. The Eye Cannot See Itself
- 6. The Black & Lovely Gro.
- 7. A Presence Hungry to Reveal Itself
- 8. Unspeakable Joy
- 9. Plots Are for Graveyards
- 10.
- 11. The Amorist
- 12. Talking in Circles
- 13. Dinner on the Grounds
- 14. Every Picture Tells a Story
- 15. The Social Ocean
- 16. Up All Night
- 17. Crisscross
- 18. One of These Mirrors Is Lying to Me
- 19. The Key to Wedlock
- 20. The End of Passion
- 21. Reverential Awe
- 22. Behind the Visible World
- 23. Bone of My Bones
- 24. Exemption from Oblivion
- 25. Instruments of the Passion
- 26. People Who Might Be Dead or Alive
- 27. Picnic
- 28. Is That the Same Moon?
- 29. A Spy in the House of Love
- 30. Love in General, Ariane in Particular
- 31. We Crave for Hunger
- 32. Talking in Bed
- 33. Now You Will Feel No Rain
- 34. Epithalamium
- 35. In Dreams
- 36. Might I But Moor Tonight in Thee
- 37. A Formal Feeling Comes
- 38. In a Time of Sore Bereavement
- 39. Heart, Without the Swoon
- 40. Mirror Without Glass
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Also by John Dufresne
- Copyright
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