The Year Before the Flood
Ned Sublette
Availability:
Ebook in PDF format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Ebook in PDF format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Publisher:
Chicago Review Press
Chicago Review Press
DRM:
ACS4
ACS4
Publication Year:
2014
2014
ISBN-13:
9781569763216
Description:
Spending 2004?2005 in New Orleans investigating the city’s legendary past both in the archives and its living culture in the street, this account combines personal memoir, historical research, and on-the-ground reporting to trace a suspenseful arc through the last year New Orleans was whole. The perspectives of daily life and the passage of seasons in the antediluvian city are darkly comic, irreverent, passionate, and angry. Fully revealing the city’s vicious heritage of racism and its murderous poverty, this heartbreaking narrative of joy, violence, and loss features a grand parade of unforgettable characters in the town that is both America’s great music city and its homicide capital.