| Description |
163 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Rowed home -- From pillar to post -- Heartbreak motel -- Omens of homecoming -- Candles & coolers -- Civilization, distilled and deglazed -- Ground scores -- Open houses -- Tropical lows -- The Katrina Christmas -- Mardi Gras -- A new normal -- Epilogue : the unsinkable Crescent City : August, 12, 2007. |
| Summary |
For many months after Hurricane Katrina, life in New Orleans meant negotiating streets strewn with debris and patrolled by the United States Army. Most of the city was without power. Emptied and ruined houses, businesses, schools, and churches stretched for miles through once thriving neighborhoods. Almost immediately, however, die-hard New Orleanians began a homeward journey. A travelogue through this surreal landscape, A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina offers a deeply intimate, firsthand account of that homecoming. After the floodwaters drained, author Ian McNulty returned to live on the second floor of his wrecked house without electricity or neighbors. For months his sanity was writing this book on a laptop by candlelight. |
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New Orleans (La.) -- Description and travel.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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City and town life -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Street life -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
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McNulty, Ian, 1973-
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New Orleans (La.) -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781934110911 alkaline paper |
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1934110914 alkaline paper |
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