Kate O'Riordan. Seattle Wa. A Season of Night is a wonderfully written story of the author's love affair with New Orleans and his personal account of his deliberate decision to move back to an abandoned neighborhood to embrace his city and refuse to leave her. This is not a story of blame for any government agency but rather a story of unsung heroes like the pub and restaurant owners the reconstruction workers and people like Mr. McNulty himself that brought New Orleans back to life after the Katrina disaster. I would highly recommend this book and look forward to the author's next book.Kate O'RiordanSeattle Wa.
A touch of grace This book will touch you in many ways it is funny poignant enraging but most often a very graceful book. It is clear that the author values the human experience and has artfully captured the human side of post Katrina. He even attempts a canine perspective of life after the storm with humor and great observational skills. The dark side of the aftermath is evident but hope is woven through out the pages of this very readable book. When you start it you won't want to put it down. When you finish it you will feel like you know the author well and will probably want to read the book again! I highly recommend this book. I am giving it to all my close friends as a way to say I care about them.
A Season of Night I thoroughly enjoyed A Season of Night New Orleans After Katrina. It is one of those rare books that compel the reader to finish it in one sitting. It's descriptions of the surreal tragic and sometimes humorous events make it hard to believe this is nonfiction.McNulty has a true gift. His recounting of his journey back to MidCity grabs the emotions of his readers and has everyone feeling his book. He has done a remarkable job relating the tragedy of Katrina to thosewho only watched it on TV or read about it in the newspaper. He has done a great service to his City and his fellow survivors. As one of millions of people who only experienced Katrina through the media McNulty's book gives a true human perspective.A Season of Night will be high on my recommendation list for must reads this summer.
Ian McNulty Knight errant in the unsinkable Crescent City Ian McNulty's debut is a must read for those who wondered what New Orleans was really like after Katrina once you go beyond Jazz Fest and the Mardi Gras floats and the sporadic coverage that the recovery has received in the last few years. With a true feel for the grittiness and beauty peeking out from the rubble McNulty captures a sense of New Orlean's anguish and struggle to rebuild. Most of all he imparts to the reader a sense of how lonely sad depressing and desperate life was for the year following Katrina and how ordinary people faced with extraordinarily daunting circumstances can huddle together in the dark and share some small piece of happiness. I guarantee you will read it in one sitting and laugh and cry while you do.
Marley and Me meets New Orleans Ian McNulty's first book gives the reader a delightful assortment of emotions. His poignant tale of trying to recapture his life in a post Katrina setting had me laughing out loud read about the tattooed rollerblading girl in one chapter and weeping in another. McNulty's besottment with New Orleans is evident as he records his baby steps in reclaiming the essence of what makes this Rhode Island young man now call New Orleans his home his love.
A Season of Night This book more than any newspaper article or tv spot gave an indepth personal and heartfelt look at the disaster of Katrina. Highly recommended. It covered a range of emotions love loss anger fear comraderie humordon't miss it. Can't wait for Ian McNulty's next book whatever the topic.
This Old House Sisyphus looses an Avalanche on the Confederacy of Dunces Just finished Season of Night. Too much to savor and process in a capsule review but a funny absurd sad beautiful and moving work Fantastically written serious simple unadorned but elegant clear precise emotional but without cloying sentiment or maudlin nonsense a lucid prose analysis of an impossibly comlex series of crises personal and universal at once LOVED it and am in awe of the accomplishment both as a piece of writing and the reality of the story itself Thank you Mr.
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