The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans

by Ned Sublette

Book Overview

With a style the Los Angeles Times calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city.

In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The World That Made New Orleans, Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556528248
• ISBN13: 9781556528248
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"