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| View Larger Image | Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
by Joshua Clark
| | List Price: | $25.00 |  | | 6 New starting at: | $10.99 | | 7 Used starting at: | $8.38 | | 1 Collectible starting at: | $25.00 | | | | | Sales Rank: | 693239 | | Studio: | Free Press | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 368 | | Publication Date: | July 10, 2007 | | Publisher: | Free Press |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 11 reviews)
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Beautifully written! 
This book gives you great insight into life in New Orleans immediately after Katrina. The writer perfectly combines real life experiences with his superb imagination amd story telling skills. I have fallen in love, again with the city of New Orleans and now, with the writing of Joshua Clark!!!
June 16, 2008 | |
I don't know what the fuss is about Katrina 
Storms like that are standard in the Philippines and Bangladesh and they find hardly their way on any frontpage in the West. House gone? Build a new one. Until next month or if your are lucky, next year.
It's different in Hongkong, though: Typhoon? Super Typhoon? Let's party! The houses won't fall down in a direct hit. Just close the windows and get some rubber boots. Don't forget to shop before the veggie prices rise.
November 27, 2007 | |
A masterful read 
I'm not sure anyone could say it better than Andrei Codrescu, famed
NPR commentator: "In the growing constellation of Katrina stories,
Josh Clark's masterful tale shines brightest. The Apocalypse
destroyed a city and ripped to shreds lives, but the legibility of
its profound inner impact had to wait for this book, which is a love
story. Clark's book is our Love in a Time of Cholera, but, even more
than Marquez's novel, it is immediate and wrenching and true, while
its rhythms, like Marquez's, are nothing short of majestic. Josh
Clark has written the great nonfiction New Orleans novel, a book
that's here to stay."
Anyone who thinks this books conveys "frat boy" sensibilities not
only must not be able to read, but must have not made it far into the
book. It's a rough, yet frighteningly beautiful, emotional journey. A
heck of a book even if it was pure fiction, which it unfortunately is
not.
October 03, 2007 | |
Beg to Differ 
I read all the glowing reviews and some of my friends are featured copiously throughout this volume--people who are actually unbelievably gracious and compassionate--but I just couldn't get past Joshua Clark's drunken frat boy sensibilities--something about Clark struck me in the back of the head like a silver spoon from a spoiled, New England prep-school, rich kid's soft, workless hands. I lived through it too and it wasn't a party like Mr. Clark paints it...not one bit. I could only read half of it; as lively as his memoir could get there was something incredibly immature and insensitive about Mr. Clark's actions in his account...maybe the latter half of the book redeems itself and if so, I will review in kind. Although it can be engaging in a kind-of voyeuristic sense, I can only give it two stars because the five star praise by the other posters was far too generous.
August 30, 2007 | |
Clark poured out his heart, like water.
Joshua Clark's HEART LIKE WATER is powerful, poignant, touching and amazing unlike any other book I've read about surviving a disaster. Street-wise Clark takes readers through the French Quarter's back alleys, to indestructable bars that stayed open during the hurricane, and out-lying areas not mentioned in news accounts. With a beautiful, gritty writing style, he gives us the perspectives of people who could be easily over-looked but whose experiences take us as close to the eye of the hurricane, and its terrible aftermath, that out-siders can get. This book will prove to be the quintessential Katrina chronicle for years to come. Ghost Hunter's Guide to New Orleans
August 23, 2007 | |
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