Balcony Stories

By Grace Elizabeth King

Book Overview

Balcony Stories is a collection of short stories written by Grace E. King. The book is set in New Orleans, Louisiana and explores the lives of the city's inhabitants during the late 19th and early... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150092878X
• ISBN13: 9781500928780
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Stories of Louisiana women of the late 19th century

I first read about Grace King and her "Balcony Stories" in Christopher Benfey's "Degas in New Orleans." Benfey quotes King as writing about New Orleans balconies' secret life: "There is much of life passed on the balcony in a country where the summer unrolls in six moon-lengths, and where the nights have to come with a double endowment of vastness and splendor to compensate for the tedious, sun-parched days." This quote caught my attention, as did Benfey's brief description of the stories -- all about women: Cajuns, Creoles, free women of color. And I had to read the stories for myself. I'm glad I did -- the stories are a window into a very specific time and place in an area of the South that seems a world of its own. -- Phyllis Zimbler Miller