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Voices from the storm : the people of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath

Title
Voices from the storm : the people of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath / compiled and edited by Lola Vollen and Chris Ying ; series editors, Dave Eggers and Lola Vollen ; interviews by Stacy Parker Aab, Mary Beth Black, Colin Dabkowski, Billy Sothern and Andy Young ; additional material from Sharon Ferranti, Dana Leventhal, Mary Ann Pendino, Claire Smith ; cover art and illustrations by Lart Cognac.
Publication
San Francisco : McSweeney's Books, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Vollen, Lola.
  • Ying, Christopher.
  • Eggers, Dave.
  • Aab, Stacy Parker.
  • Black, Mary Beth.
  • Dabkowski, Colin.
  • Sothern, Billy.
  • Young, Andrew W.
  • Berliner, Lart Cognac
Description
v, 287 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Voice of witness
Subject
  • Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  • Disaster victims > Louisiana > New Orleans > Personal narratives
  • Floods > Louisiana > New Orleans
Note
  • "Stranded in a city submerged, the narrators of "Voices from the Storm" survived the devastation brought on by Hurricane Katrina only to find themselves abandoned and even victimized by their own government. These thirteen men and women of New Orleans recount in astonishing and heartrending detail, the worst natural disaster in American history"-- back cover.
  • This series collects oral histories on human-rights crises in the United States and around the world.
Contents
Life before the storm: Patricia Thompson. Renee Martin. Jackie Harris. Rhonda Sylvester. Dan Bright. Father Jerome LeDoux. Sonya Hernandez. Kalamu ya Salaam. Kermit Ruffins. Daniel Finnigan. Anthony Letcher. Abdulrahman Zeitoun. Father Vien The Nguyen -- The storm -- The week after -- Weeks after the storm -- Looking back.
Call Number
Sc D 07-52
ISBN
  • 1932416684
  • 9781932416688
OCLC
75487611
Title
Voices from the storm : the people of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath / compiled and edited by Lola Vollen and Chris Ying ; series editors, Dave Eggers and Lola Vollen ; interviews by Stacy Parker Aab, Mary Beth Black, Colin Dabkowski, Billy Sothern and Andy Young ; additional material from Sharon Ferranti, Dana Leventhal, Mary Ann Pendino, Claire Smith ; cover art and illustrations by Lart Cognac.
Imprint
San Francisco : McSweeney's Books, c2006.
Series
Voice of witness
Added Author
Vollen, Lola.
Ying, Christopher.
Eggers, Dave.
Aab, Stacy Parker.
Black, Mary Beth.
Dabkowski, Colin.
Sothern, Billy.
Young, Andrew W.
Berliner, Lart Cognac, il.
Research Call Number
Sc D 07-52
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