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A Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina | 
 enlarge | Author: Ian Mcnulty
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 48665
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 163
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1934110914
Dewey Decimal Number: 976.335064
EAN: 9781934110911
ASIN: 1934110914
Publication Date: July 2008
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Book Description
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 live on the second floor of his wrecked house without electricity or neighbors. For months his sanity was writing this book on a laptop by candlelight. By turns haunting, inspiring, and darkly comic, this memoir offers a behind-the-headlines story of resilience and renewal. From bittersweet camaraderie in the wreckage to depression and violent rampages in the lawless night to the first flickers of cultural revival and the explosive joy of a post-Katrina Mardi Gras, A Season of Night delivers an unprecedented tale from the wounded but always enthralling Crescent City.
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Ian McNulty: Knight errant in the unsinkable Crescent City July 22, 2008
Ian McNulty's debut is a must read for those who wondered what New Orleans was really like after Katrina once you go beyond Jazz Fest and the Mardi Gras floats and the sporadic coverage that the recovery has received in the last few years. With a true feel for the grittiness and beauty peeking out from the rubble, McNulty captures a sense of New Orlean's anguish and struggle to rebuild. Most of all, he imparts to the reader a sense of how lonely, sad, depressing and desperate life was for the year following Katrina, and how ordinary people faced with extraordinarily daunting circumstances can huddle together in the dark and share some small piece of happiness. I guarantee you will read it in one sitting and laugh and cry while you do.
Marley and Me meets New Orleans July 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ian McNulty's first book gives the reader a delightful assortment of emotions. His poignant tale of trying to recapture his life in a post Katrina setting had me laughing out loud (read about the tattooed rollerblading girl) in one chapter and weeping in another. McNulty's besottment with New Orleans is evident as he records his baby steps in reclaiming the essence of what makes this Rhode Island young man now call New Orleans his home, his love.
Mary Quadrini
A Season of Night July 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thoroughly enjoyed "A Season of Night: New Orleans After Katrina". It is one of those rare books that compel the reader to finish it in one sitting. It's descriptions of the surreal, tragic, and sometimes humorous events make it hard to believe this is non-fiction.
McNulty has a true gift. His recounting of his journey back to Mid-City grabs the emotions of his readers and has everyone "feeling" his book. He has done a remarkable job relating the tragedy of Katrina to those
who only watched it on TV or read about it in the newspaper. He has done a great service to his City and his fellow survivors. As one of millions of people who only experienced Katrina through the media McNulty's book gives a true human perspective.
"A Season of Night" will be high on my recommendation list for "must reads" this summer.
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