A season of night [[electronic resource] ] : New Orleans life after Katrina / / Ian McNulty

• Autore: McNulty Ian <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (172 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.3/35064
• Soggetto topico: City and town life - Louisiana - New Orleans; Street life - Louisiana - New Orleans; Hurricane Katrina, 2005
• Soggetto geografico: New Orleans (La.) Description and travel; New Orleans (La.) Social life and customs 21st century; New Orleans (La.) Social conditions 21st century; New Orleans (La.) Biography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A season of night
• ISBN: 1-282-48482-6; 9786612484827; 1-60473-322-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782839803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II