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Hurricane Story

Jennifer Shaw

4.9/5 (9356 ratings)

Description:"Like a mournful fairytale, Jennifer Shaw's beautifully staged tableaux are alternately sweet and menacing, filled with emotion but never spilling over into sentimentality. The poetic marriage of words and photos makes IHurricane Story/I a children#8217;s book for grown-ups.#8221; #151;Josh Neufeld, creator of IA.D.#58; New Orleans After the Deluge/Ip"Even if you think you've seen it all where Katrina's concerned, trust me, you're going to love Shaw's marvelous memoir."#151;IThe Times-Picayune/Ip"This is the kind of book that reminds you that books can be beautiful objects." #151;IThe Los Angeles Times/Ip"Hurricane Story is a tabletop, toy box Odyssey. With simple objects, trenchant statements, and exquisite camera vision, Shaw relates an epic tale of displacement, creation and discovery." #151; George Slade, curator, Photographic Resource Center, Bostonp"An engaging variation on a near mythic theme."#151;IGambit Weekly/IpIHurricane Story/I is a spellbinding odyssey of exile, birth and return told in forty-six photographs and simple, understated prose. This first-person narrative told through dreamlike images of toys and dolls chronicles one couple#8217;s evacuation from New Orleans ahead of the broken levees, the birth of their first child on the day that Katrina made landfall, and their eventual return to the city as a family. Shaw#8217;s photographs, at turns humorous and haunting, contrast deftly with the prose.pThis clothbound hardcover edition includes an introduction by Rob Walker, author of ILetters From New Orleans/I and former #147;Consumed#8221; columnist for IThe New York Times Magazine/I.pWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hurricane Story. To get started finding Hurricane Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 1634059077

Description: "Like a mournful fairytale, Jennifer Shaw's beautifully staged tableaux are alternately sweet and menacing, filled with emotion but never spilling over into sentimentality. The poetic marriage of words and photos makes IHurricane Story/I a children#8217;s book for grown-ups.#8221; #151;Josh Neufeld, creator of IA.D.#58; New Orleans After the Deluge/Ip"Even if you think you've seen it all where Katrina's concerned, trust me, you're going to love Shaw's marvelous memoir."#151;IThe Times-Picayune/Ip"This is the kind of book that reminds you that books can be beautiful objects." #151;IThe Los Angeles Times/Ip"Hurricane Story is a tabletop, toy box Odyssey. With simple objects, trenchant statements, and exquisite camera vision, Shaw relates an epic tale of displacement, creation and discovery." #151; George Slade, curator, Photographic Resource Center, Bostonp"An engaging variation on a near mythic theme."#151;IGambit Weekly/IpIHurricane Story/I is a spellbinding odyssey of exile, birth and return told in forty-six photographs and simple, understated prose. This first-person narrative told through dreamlike images of toys and dolls chronicles one couple#8217;s evacuation from New Orleans ahead of the broken levees, the birth of their first child on the day that Katrina made landfall, and their eventual return to the city as a family. Shaw#8217;s photographs, at turns humorous and haunting, contrast deftly with the prose.pThis clothbound hardcover edition includes an introduction by Rob Walker, author of ILetters From New Orleans/I and former #147;Consumed#8221; columnist for IThe New York Times Magazine/I.pWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hurricane Story. To get started finding Hurricane Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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