Heart like water : surviving Katrina and life in its disaster zone / Joshua Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Joshua, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Social aspects.

Disaster victims.

New Orleans (La.)--History--21st century.

New Orleans (La.).

Disaster victims--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.

Clark, Joshua, 1975-.

Clark, Joshua.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

356 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Free Press hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, 2007.

Summary:

Joshua Clark never left New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, choosing instead to band together with fellow holdouts in the French Quarter, pooling resources and volunteering energy in an effort to save the city they loved. When Katrina hit, Clark, a key correspondent for National Public Radio during the storm, immediately began to record hundreds of hours of conversations with its victims, not only in the city but throughout the Gulf: the devastated poor and rich alike; rescue workers from around the country; reporters; local characters who could exist nowhere else but New Orleans; politicians; the woman Clark loved, in a relationship ravaged by the storm. Their voices resound throughout this memoir of a unique and little-known moment of anarchy and chaos, of heartbreaking kindness and incomprehensible anguish, of mercy and madness as only America could deliver it.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

9781416537632

1416537635

OCLC:

84837912

Online:

Publisher description