Research Catalog

Title

My New Orleans, gone away : a memoir of loss and renewal / Peter M. Wolf.

Author

Wolf, Peter M.

Publication

Harrison, N.Y. : Delphinium Books, c2013.

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Details

Description

xiv, 322 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Capturing the magic, mystery, culture, architecture and lifestyle of this exotic city, the author, a sixth-generation member of a New Orleans commercial family, reveals what it was like growing up Jewish in New Orleans during the mid-20th century.

Subject

• Wolf, Peter M
• City planners > United States > Biography
• New Orleans (La.) > Biography

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 313) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / by Calvin Trillin -- Preface -- pt. I. My New Orleans. Swinging -- Separate and unequal -- The war and wounded -- Being Jewish -- pt. II. Away : up east. Exeter -- Yale -- Round the world and medical school -- pt. III. Home again. The cotton business -- The French Quarter and Tulane -- Settling in -- Mosca's -- Challenged -- Restoration dreams -- Unsettled -- pt. IV. Gone away. Paris -- Wedding day -- Dominique calls -- Epilogue : dedication weekend.

ISBN

• 1883285569 (hbk.) :
• 9781883285562 (hbk.) :

OCLC

822227347

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library