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Author McNulty, Ian, 1973-

Title A season of night : New Orleans life after Katrina / Ian McNulty
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (163 pages)
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
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
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Subject McNulty, Ian, 1973-
SUBJECT McNulty, Ian, 1973- fast (OCoLC)fst01688235
Subject City and town life -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Street life -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
City and town life.
Manners and customs.
Social conditions
Street life.
Travel.
Stadtleben
Katrina Hurrikan
SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091381
New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
New Orleans (La.) -- Biography
Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans.
New Orleans, La.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021695041
ISBN 9781604733228
1604733225