1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose
With a new foreword by the author--Chris Rose's New York Times bestselling collection: A gripping book about life's challenges in post-Katrina New Orleans.packed with heart, honesty, and wit (New Republic). Celebrated as a local classic and heaped with national praise, 1 Dead in Attic is a brilliant collection of columns by an award-winning Times-Picayune journalist chronicling the horrific damage and aftermath wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2006. Frank and compelling.vivid and invaluable (Booklist), it is a roller coaster ride through a devastated American wasteland as it groans for rebirth. Full of the emotion, tragedy and even humor--which has made Chris Rose a favorite son and the voice of a lost city--these are the stories of the dead and the living, of survivors and believers, of destruction and recovery, and of hope and despair. With photographs by British photojournalist Charlie Varley, 1 Dead in Attic captures New Orleans caught between an old era and a new, New Orleans in its most desperate time, as it struggled out of floodwaters and willed itself back to life.Chris Rose is a columnist for The New Orleans Times-Picayune, an essayist for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and a frequent contributor for NPR's Morning Edition. He was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 2006 for his Katrina essays, and he received a portion of the Times-Picayune staff's Pulitzer for Public Service in 2007. Rose and his three children live in New Orleans.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781416552987 |
| ISBN 10 | 1416552987 |
| Title | 1 Dead in Attic |
| Author | Chris Rose |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2007-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 364 |
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