| Chita: A Memory of Last Island Contributor(s): Hearn, Lafcadio (Author) |
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ISBN: 1565549716 ISBN-13: 9781565549715 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: Hearn paints a colorful portrait of life in the marshy Gulf Coast city of New Orleans, focusing on a young white girl who is adopted by a Spanish family. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.08" W x 8.06" (0.57 lbs) 212 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hearn paints life on a marshy, eclectic Gulf Coast island in the middle of the 19th century. Chita is a young white girl who is orphaned by a shipwreck and then adopted by a Spanish family on the island. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hearn, Lafcadio: - Born in Greece to an Irish soldier and a Greek mother, Lafcadio Hearn emigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. While working as a newspaperman in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hearn married a black woman, which was then illegal, and fled to New Orleans to escape prosecution. Once there, he began to work for the New Orleans Item. During his time in New Orleans, Hearn published several books while continuing his work as a journalist. |