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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor — in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators. Dead in Attic freeze-frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during its most desperate time, as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills itself back to life. Review:"The physical and psychic dislocation wrought by Hurricane Katrina is painstakingly recollected in this brilliant collection of columns by award-winning New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Rose (who has already hand-sold 60,000 self-published copies). After evacuating his family first to Mississippi and then to his native Maryland, Rose returned almost immediately to chronicle his adopted hometown's journey to 'hell and back.' Rose deftly sketches portraits of the living, from the cat lady who survives the storm only to die from injuries sustained during a post-hurricane mugging, to the California National Guard troops who gratefully chow down on steaks Rose managed to turn up in an unscathed French Quarter freezer. He's equally adept at evoking the spirit of the dead and missing, summed up by the title, quoting the entirety of an epitaph spray-painted on one home. Although the usual suspects (FEMA and Mayor Ray Nagin, among others) receive their fair share of barbs, Rose's rancor toward the powers that be is surprisingly muted. In contrast, he chronicles his own descent into mental illness (and subsequent recovery) with unsparing detail; though his maniacal dedication to witnessing the innumerable tragedies wrought by 'The Thing' took him down a dark, dangerous path ('three friends of mine have, in fact, killed themselves in the past year'), it also produced one of the finest first-person accounts yet in the growing Katrina canon." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"The Crescent City's bard." Harry Shearer, Huffington Post Review:"The most engaging of the Katrina books...packed with more heart, honesty, and wit....Rose was more interested in telling the searing stories of his shattered city than assigning the blame for its demise." The New Republic Review:"These are impressionistic cries of pain and mordant humor...they so aptly mirrored the sense of surreal dislocation experienced by New Orleanians that they turned Rose into a voice of the tortured city." The Washington Post Book World Review:"Read together as a book, the litany of torment and tragedy is numbing." Dallas-Ft. Worth Star Telegram Review:"As primary source material, this is top-drawer stuff." San Francisco Chronicle Review:"Reading 1 Dead in Attic is like walking hand in hand with Rose through his stages of grief: crying, raging, questioning, and eventually smiling as he describes the unbreakable soul of the Big Easy." Christian Science Monitor Synopsis:Originally a self-published sensation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, 1 Dead in Attic captures the heart and soul of New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. About the AuthorChris 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. Table of ContentsIntroduction Who We Are
Facing the Unknown The First Time Back Survivors Life in the Surreal City Hope Rita Takes Aim The Empty City God and Strippers The More Things Change Enough to Feed an Army
Blue Roof Blues The Smell The Elephant Men Mad City 1 Dead in Attic Despair
My Introduction to New Orleans The Funky Butt The Hurricane Kids Traveling Man Have Barbie, Will Travel Prep Boys and Jesuits Good-bye Groundhog Day Coming Home
Civil Unrest Refrigerator Town Lurching Toward Babylon The Cat Lady Caving In The Magnet Man The Last Ride Lights in the City Let the Good Times Roll Our Katrina Christmas Tears, Fears, and a New Year
Chocolate City Tutti-Frutti He Had a Dream He's Picking the Pairs for Nola's Ark Rider on the Storm Car 54, Where Are You? Not in My Pothole Survive This
September Never Ends The Muddy Middle Ground Misery in the Melting Pot The End of the World A Huck Finn Kind of Life Our Very Scary Summer Songs in the Key of Strife The End of the Line We Raze, and Raise, and Keep Pushing Forward Echoes of Katrina in the Country
Second Line, Same Verse Don't Mess with Mrs. Rose Shooting the Rock The City That Hair Forgot A Rapturous Day in the Real World Big Daddy No Fun Peace Among the Ruins Artful Practicality "She Rescued My Heart" Miss Ellen Deserved Better
Rebirth at the Maple Leaf Melancholy Reveler They Don't Get Mardi Gras, and They Never Will Reality Fest Love Fest O Brothers, Where Be Y'all? Funeral for a Friend Thanks, We Needed That Say What's So, Joe A Night to Remember Eternal Dome Nation
On the Inside Looking Out A City on Hold A Tough Nut to Crack Hell and Back Letters from the Edge
Children of the Storm, It's Time to Represent Thank You, Whoever You Are A New Dawn Acknowledgments What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 4 comments:
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