Courting Pandemonium
Published on 8. June 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-60801-101-8 (ISBN)
Description
Raised by an outspoken single mother, Mac coaches women's high school basketball in a New Orleans public school. When Mac encourages a star athlete, Barbara Jeanne Bordelon, to play on the boy's basketball team, he incurs a flurry of public scrutiny that puts him in the path of radical feminists and evangelical Christians. Set in the 1970s to coincide with the Title IX ruling, Courting Pandemonium looks back on the landmark equal rights case with the singular mix of poignancy and absurdist humor Barton is known for.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60801-101-8 (9781608011018)
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Person
Fredrick Barton is the author of the novels The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Black and White on the Rocks, and A House Divided, which won the William Faulkner Prize in fiction. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he currently serves as Director of the Creative Writing Workshop, UNO's MFA program in imaginative writing, which, with his colleagues, he founded in 1990