1 Dead in Attic
by Chris Rose
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Author: Chris RosePhotographer: Charlie Varley
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-16
ISBN: 0977771504
Number of pages: 158
Publisher: CR Books
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Book Review: Terrible writer = terrible book.
Summary: 1 Stars
Okay, maybe this book will mean more to you if you lived in New Orleans during Katrina, but for me, this book was nothing but page after page of some of the worst writing I've ever seen come out of a professional writer. I didn't learn anything about Katrina that I didn't learn from the pictures I saw on newspapers.
He first takes a moment to describe how lucky he was. He then goes on to walk through the city and describes the destruction in some cliched way. And he repeats. When I finally came to the line where he called Bourbon street the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" I slapped it shut and never opened it again.
I don't know if Nick Hornby kept journals when he was 11, but if he did, I imagine the writing in those was only slightly better than this book.
Summary of 1 Dead in Attic
1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first four harrowing months of life in New Orleans after Katrina. It is a roller coaster ride of observations, commentary, emotions, tragedy and even humor - in a way that only Rose 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.
With photographs by British photojournalist Charlie Varley, 1 Dead in Attic freeze frames New Orleans caught between an old era and a new, New Orleans in its most desperate time, as it struggled out of floodwaters and willed itself back to life in the autumn and early winter of 2005.
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