Stories From Where We Live: The Gulf Coast, edited by Sara St. Antoine (with an essay by John Cutrone)

This rare, out-of-print item is not a Convivio book at all, but an anthology from Milkweed Editions. It includes an essay by Convivio Bookworks' own John Cutrone. The book was the fourth in Milkweed's Stories From Where We Live series, and features stories, essays and poetry about the huge semicircle of land that stretches from East Texas to the Florida Keys. John's essay, titled "The Lure of the Swamp," is about Corkscrew Swamp at the northern edge of the Everglades in Florida's Collier County. New copies like the ones we have in stock are selling for upwards of $59 at AbeBooks; we are offering our remaining copies at $45. The book, geared towards children but not necessarily just for them, features several new voices alongside well-known writers who have lived on or chronicled the Gulf Coast, including Zora Neale Hurston, Barry Hannah, John James Audubon, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Hardcover trade edition with dust jacket, 252 pages, 2002. This was the first time John's work had b