1 Dead in Attic—CHRIS ROSE—Hurricane Katrina—New Orleans Gonzo Classic

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A Private Press/Self-Published TRADE PAPERBACK (First Edition): • Of a Modern Classic of Creative Nonfiction & Literary Journalism: • & New Orleans: • “1 DEAD IN ATTIC: Post-Katrina Stories” (Chris Rose Books, 2005) (Trade Paperback, First Edition) • BY CHRIS ROSE • ABOUT THIS TITLE:• “Celebrated as a local classic and heaped with national praise, 1 DEAD IN ATTIC is a brilliant collection of columns by an award-winning TIMES-PICAYUNE journalist chronicling the horrific damage and aftermath wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2006…. It is a roller-coaster ride through a devastated American wasteland as it groans for rebirth. Full of the emotion, tragedy and even humor—which has made CHRIS ROSE a favorite son and the voice of a lost city—these are the stories of the dead and the living, of survivors and believers, of destruction and recovery, and of hope and despair. “With photographs by British photojournalist CHARLIE VARLEY, 1 DEAD IN ATTIC captures 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.” —SIMON & SCHUSTER • “The Crescent City’s bard…. His columns were ruthlessly observed, yet filled with a dark but real compassion. He would start out outraging or amusing you, but by the end, you would start to puddle up, because he hit an emotional nerve.” —HARRY SHEARER, HUFFINGTON POST • “1 DEAD IN ATTIC collects the columns following Hurricane Katrina in which Rose chronicled New Orleans in extremis. There is no more accurate reflection of the city’s distress and its unraveling.”—C. MORGAN BABST, ‘THE FLOATING WORLD’ • “I feel odd saying this was a great book. It seems a little cruel to enjoy a book about such a tragedy. However, it’s a very readable book. Since it began life as a series of newspaper columns, it’s written in a very conversational way. You can imagine ROSE sitting there and telling you these things over coffee. ROSE is very open about his own life and how he was directly impacted. His family evacuated and his house was not lost and he doesn’t pretend otherwise. He does, however, take you on a tour of the areas that were devastated.”—WE’D RATHER READ (BLOG) • “The most engaging of the Katrina books... A gripping book about life’s challenges in post-Katrina New Orleans…packed with heart, honesty, and wit.... ROSE was more interested in telling the searing stories of his shattered city than assigning the blame for its demise….” —MICHAEL GRUNWALD, THE NEW REPUBLIC • “Before I read 1 DEAD IN ATTIC, Hurricane Katrina was an abstraction to me—something horrible that happened somewhere else…. Without blinking, ROSE chronicles the absolute loss of his city, including his own dismal plummet into depression…. CHRIS ROSE reminded me that we are all on this planet together, and darkness will eat you unless you eat it first.”—PETER JICKLING, WHAT’S UP YUKON (BLOG) • “Frank and compelling...vivid and invaluable.” —BOOKLIST • “Classic.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “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.” —KEN RINGLE, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD • “1 DEAD IN ATTIC makes for heartfelt, harrowing yet often uplifting reading. Unlike most of the TV coverage, which focused on Katrina’s broad, destructive sweep—the Superdome, the ragged rooftop figures, ‘BROWNIE, you’re doing a heck of a job’—ROSE hews to the small, personal strokes…. He mostly writes about the small stories of death, hope and survival that make his adopted hometown a special place….” —POPMATTERS • “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…self-published copies). After evacuating his family…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] a post-hurricane mugging, to the California National Guard troops who gratefully chow down on steaks Rose managed to turn up.… He’s equally adept at evoking the spirit of the dead and missing…[and also] 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 • “Beautifully written, with a myriad of anecdotes, personal stories and a complete lack of self-pity, the stories capture the enormity of what happened, and of how the city has comes to terms with the catastrophe that was Hurricane Katrina and its prolonged aftermath. There is a remarkable amount of humour, perhaps surprisingly, and pathos, and moving accounts of both individual’s and collective stories…. This is a powerful and moving book…. It will bring to life the dry facts and figures about how collective traumas affect communities, and the longer psychological traumas that the most robust populations can face. It will also make you laugh, and wonder at the resilience of those affected.”—SELENA GRAY, JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS) • “The reporting is that good and needful. As primary source material, this is top-drawer stuff…. e paints a sense of bleakness worthy of WILLIAM STYRON… If his brio takes a battering, ROSE’s sweet caring for New Orleans never dulls. His effusions of civic pride are like endearments whispered to a loved one in a sickbed: I'm here. Get better, get well. But it is ROSE’s flintiness that stays with the reader…[t]hat, and the little, telling tableaux he witnesses.” —PETER LEWIS, SAN FRANCISCO GATE • “Much more than a typical third-party analysis of Katrina’s aftermath…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…. ROSE’s book is a poignant ode to the nameless and faceless victims of the storm. They may not have received jazz funeral processions or obituaries but Rose gives them their place here, just as he does the spirit and soul of the city he calls his own.”—AMY BRITTAIN, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • “He won his Pulitzer by writing about his intense personal struggles following Katrina. A newspaper columnist who had once been known for celebrity gossip, Rose’s public persona was reborn. He used his column as catharsis, writing emotional, first-person accounts that spoke to—and represented—a suffering community.”—MICHAEL PATRICK WELCH, COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “In 2006, CHRIS ROSE 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.” —THE PUBLISHER • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “1 DEAD IN ATTIC: Post-Katrina Stories” AUTHOR: CHRIS ROSE PHOTOGRAPHER: CHARLIE VARLEY ILLUSTRATED: WITH B&W PHOTOS TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK PAGES: 158 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Chris Rose Books (New Orleans), 2005 EDITION: Presumed First Edition, First Printing* *RE: Though the copyright year of 2005 is listed, there’s no explicit edition data on the Copyright Page or elsewhere. Nor are any later printings mentioned. (Note 1: This book was a private-press, paperback original & was not issued in hardcover.) (Note 2: This book was acquired Simon & Schuster who reissued it—also as a trade paperback—in 2006. That later edition became a New York Times’ best-seller.) NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy or a Book of the Month Club edition. ISBN: 0-9777715-0-4 CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Covers/wraps have light but persistent smudging & scratching. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. Corners are rubbed (& lightly bent). Light edge-wear. Text-block edges are fine. Endpapers are fine. The pages are bright & clean with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no doodling, no stains, no tears, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS GENTLY READ. • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy mailer. 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After 4 days—and independent of us!—eBay automatically begins a process for unpaid action. NEED MORE TIME? If you need more time to pay, PLEASE just contact us in advance of the deadline. We understand how life happens, so we don't mind being reasonable. Thank you!*********** LASTLY ***********What more can we say? Haven't we said enough? Well…we can always repeat ourselves. In summary:FLAPPINCAT is genuinely grateful for your patronage and we aim to express that gratitude in every way we can. Thanks for trusting FLAPPINCAT! *********** P.S. COMINGSOON *********** /\___/\=•ᆺ•=• For Your Consideration: • A First Edition in HARDCOVER of: • “WILLIAM FAULKNER: THE MAN AND THE ARTIST” (Harper & Row, 1987) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • A BIOGRAPHY BY STEPHEN B. OATES • ABOUT THIS TITLE: “I found STEPHEN B. OATES’s WILLIAM FAULKNER: THE MAN AND THE ARTISTengrossing reading from beginning to end. Both because it conveys insights into the complex processes of literary technique and artistic imagination through which a great American writer made stories and novels out of the emotion and insights gleaned from his living, and because STEPHEN OATES’s biographical skills swept me along with something of the narrative thrust and psychological illumination that are characteristic of FAULKNER’s fiction.” —RALPH ELLISON • “A reader who knows little of FAULKNER’s work, or perhaps knows nothing but his name, will still find this book vital, compelling, and memorable. I finished reading in tears, but then I honor and revere the memory of FAULKNER and the magic of his work. Here is a life of profound grief, loneliness and tragedy that resulted in an ultimate triumph without parallel in this century. STEPHEN OATES will always have my deepest gratitude for the work he has done in these pages.” —HARRY CREWS • “Romantic and absorbing…. Suddenly, instead of being the sum of a million particles, FAULKNER’s life assumes terrific motion. His personality coalesces—the courtliness, the obdurate eyes, the impenetrable silences. There is action to his story.”—CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, NEW YORK TIMES • “With considerable narrative skill, OATES navigates the muddy, turbulent currents of FAULKNER’s life, so that few readers will come away unmoved by his tragedy and his glory.”—JOHN BLADES, CHICAGE TRIBUNE BOOK WORLD • “It is a tale as turbulent and engrossing as any of the novels and stories in his monumental Yoknapatawpha saga…. From it all emerges a compelling portrait of the man: chivalrous and compassionate, yet ‘difficult’ and essentially lonely. This is narrative biography at its best.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “WILLIAM FAULKNER: THE MAN AND THE ARTIST: A Biography” AUTHOR: STEPHEN B. OATES TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 363 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Harper & Row (New York), 1987 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “FIRST EDITION” & this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy or a Book of the Month Club edition. ISBN: 0-06-015771-2 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD. Price is clipped. Corners & spine tips are chipped. There’s a half-inch (closed) cut at the top edge of the back &, beyond that, light but persistent edgewear. Light but persistent scratching & scuffs on sides but, overall, bright & clean. CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD. Book is square. Boards are surfaced with the kind of felt that attracts lint so there’s some of that—but boards, though lightly scuffed & scratched, are not dirty. Corners & spine tips are lightly bumped. Spine is tight Text-block edges are lighted age-toned & scuffed. On the free front endpaper is a previous owner’s dedication. But there is no other writing in the book—& all the other pages are bright & clean with, also, no underlining, no highlighting, no doodling, no stains, no tears, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. •• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. When it comes to describing condition, we tend toward being conservative. 4. PACKING & SHIPPING. We know from experience that items, when not thoughtfully packed, can be damaged during shipment. To avoid that real danger, FLAPPINCAT wraps & cushions your purchase(s) mindfully—and sometimes zealously—in a sturdy package. WARNING: In our zeal, we sometimes over-tape containers and you may need a penknife to unseal our shipments. NOTE: Though we often recycle shipping materials, we do NOT stint on protection. 5. OUR PRICES. We try to offer the lowest prices on eBay for items we sell. Even our most expensive offerings tend to be lower than what others are asking. “You could look it up!” —to quote baseball immortal JACK KEEFE. SUMMARY: We know you have many buying options on eBay. FLAPPINCAT tries to be distinctive by being accurate, mindful, and friendly. *********** How We GRADECONDITION ***********DETAILS. The condition of every item we sell will be described in detail.FLAWS. All discernible flaws will be noted, if not emphasized. Of course, the grading of condition can be subjective. And since no grader is perfect, it is possible that we may at times miss a flaw. It is also possible that we may miss some perfections! Should we make a mistake, you will find FLAPPINCAT eager to fix things with you. Just send us a note and we’ll get on it.GRADING SYSTEM. For books and magazines (and even other items), we use these terms (in order of desirability): VERY FINE or LIKE NEW FINE (or EXCELLENT) NEAR FINE (or NF) VERY GOOD PLUS (or VG+) VERY GOOD (or VG) GOOD FAIR ACCEPTABLE POOR “POOR.” Except in rare cases, for rare items, we tend to avoid selling items that are in utterly “POOR” condition. It is more likely that on a rare item, only one part of an item (out of numerous parts) will be described as “POOR.”RETURNS. We accept that you may wish to return a purchase because you genuinely think we haven't described and graded its condition properly. We accept that we our* imperfect. We also accept that people can see things differently—and still be civil! (*Get it?)POP QUIZ. Please feel free to ask questions at any time about condition (or anything else, except math). EXTRA VISUALS. Although we include multiple photographs in our listings, we usually have others we could share with you. (These extra photos also help to establish a paper-trial in the rare case that an item is damaged en route to you.)*********** SHIPPING ***********Every item is individually priced for postage. That price can be found in the listing, not here. UNITED STATES: In the USA, we ship books via MEDIA MAIL. Magazines are generally shipped PRIORITY MAIL; the Post Office does not permit magazines which carry advertising to be shipped MEDIA MAIL.INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS: To those international countries to which we ship (please see list), the cost of postage is calculated by eBay and individually listed with each item.EXPEDITED SHIPPING: In the United States, EXPEDITED SHIPPING is available if you request, and pay, for it BEFORE we ship your item. *********** HOW TO PAY ***********PAYMENT: As we ship promptly, we ask that you please pay promptly—via PAYPAL. With auctions, payments should be made before 3 days (72 hours) from the time an auction for an item closes. After 4 days—and independent of us!—eBay automatically begins a process for unpaid action. NEED MORE TIME? If you need more time to pay, PLEASE just contact us in advance of the deadline. We understand how life happens, so we don't mind being reasonable. Thank you!*********** LASTLY ***********What more can we say? 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