Year Before the Flood

A Story of New Orleans

Biography & Memoir, Literary, Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
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Author: Ned Sublette ISBN: 9781569763230
Publisher: Chicago Review Press Publication: September 1, 2009
Imprint: Lawrence Hill Books Language: English
Author: Ned Sublette
ISBN: 9781569763230
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Publication: September 1, 2009
Imprint: Lawrence Hill Books
Language: English

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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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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