1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose

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.

Rose, Chris: - Chris Rose is a columnist for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, an essayist for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and a frequent commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition. In 2006, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in recognition of his Katrina columns and was awarded a share in the Times-Picayune staff's Pulitzer for Public Service. Rose lives in New Orleans with his three children.

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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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