The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (648 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061136654 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina struck. After fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, Julia Reed got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District. The House on First Street is the chronicle of Reed's remarkable and often hilarious homecoming, as well as a thoroughly original tribute to our country's most original city.
Reed cannot leave New Orleans: love. It’s an undeceived devotion to a place and particularity that is admirable, and almost astonishing, in our increasingly deracinated culture.” (Wall Street Journal)“Reed shares this sliver of her life with a light, conversational tone, and though somewhat tangential, she conveys the richness of pace and flavor of the Big Easy as life gets back to ‘normal’ without pretense.” (Christian Science Monitor)“ … Reed recounts with humor those and other home-improvement nightmares in a story that is part ‘Money Pitt’ and part love letter to her adopted home town.” (Washing
Julia Reed grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. She is a contributing editor at Newsweek and is the author of the essay collection Queen of the Turtle Derby. She lives in New Orleans.
Five Stars Amazon Customer Love anything Julia Reed writes!. At times tedious and disappointing James Ridgway I lived in New Orleans for several years, luckily I managed to move far away a couple of years before Katrina, so I missed all of that. So when I learned about this book I thought it would be fascinating to read about someone else's experiences living there and dealing with contractors and construction (like I did) and going . Andy Orrock said Breezy, warts-and-all peek inside Julia Reed's New Orleans life. I enjoyed this 'slice of my life' book from Vogue and Newsweek writer Julia Reed. She's crafted a wonderful existence for herself in New Orleans and I, for one, enjoyed the breezy, warts-and-all peek inside. That Katrina occurs smack in the middle of the author's narrative gives her tales here extra meaning. We know what's ab