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.
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Author: Sublette, Ned
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans
Pages: 00000 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2009-09-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781556528248
Lib Category: New Orleans (La.) - Social conditions
Lib Category: Music - Social aspects - Louisiana -
Category: Biography & Autobiography : Editors, Journalists, Publishers
Category: History : United States - 21st Century