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

Title
  1. My New Orleans, gone away : a memoir of loss and renewal / Peter M. Wolf.
Published by
  1. Harrison, N.Y. : Delphinium Books, c2013.
Author
  1. Wolf, Peter M.

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Description
  1. xiv, 322 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Wolf, Peter M
  2. City planners > United States > Biography
  3. New Orleans (La.) > Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Autobiographies
  2. Biographies
  3. Autobiographies.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 313) and index.
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