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Ken Womack’s chilling novel, Playing the Angel, is set in post-Katrina New Orleans, and as such, it’s a difficult (though riveting) book to read.
Being a native Louisianian who now resides in the state once again, I was totally and utterly unaware of the tragic conditions braved by the people who stayed in “Nawlins” and “rode the storm out”…that is, until I read this book. Playing the Angel is an eye-opening account of the danger and desolation faced by the survivors of 2005’s unfathomable hurricane.
Womack, who has written one of the most respected books about The Beatles and their music, Long and Winding Roads, has already proven himself as a skillful non-fiction writer. In Playing the Angel, however, he tackles fiction with similar finesse and establishes himself as a major player in that genre as well. His book is a page-turner.
Being so very familiar with New Orleans, I was skeptical that Womack (who resides in Pennsylvania) could capture the Crescent City accurately. I was amazed. Womack knows New Orleans the way I know Liverpool. He knows every highway and byway and completely understands its unique culture. Furthermore, Womack did extensive research into the lives of New Orleans’ street merchants…the hawkers who make up The French Quarter. And he spent several years researching the aftershocks of Hurricane Katrina: talking to people who actually lived to “tell the tale,” reading newspaper articles, and doing interviews.
Playing the Angel is not a “feel good” book. It is a book that will leave vivid images in your mind that wake you up to what really happened once that bitch, Katrina, had “sashayed by.” New Orleans was raped. And that image comes to life in this book that traces the lives of an intermeshed group people (college students, street vendors, criminals, and National Guardsmen) who stayed in the city for the most dramatic moment they would ever, ever experience.
Full of rock’n’roll references, brash characters, and true-to-life action, Playing the Angel is not to be missed.


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Playing the Angel Kenneth Womack 9781622880232 Books Reviews

Victor Marie Hugo, one of the greatest and best known French writers, has quoted remarkably about "statue" as

"Dear God! How beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."

Kenneth Womack, an American author has spun quite a spectacular tale in his latest book, Playing the Angel , which will make you see the life of a woman who acts an angel for the storm hit people. But unfortunately, the tale couldn't make me see or understand Tiff Proulx so strikingly.

By day, Tiff Proulx works as a living statue, posing as the Statue of Liberty for the French Quarter’s tourist trade in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. By night, she descends into the darkness costumed as the Angel of Mercy, defending and protecting the storm refugees from the thugs who pock the city’s wayward streets. But her acts of heroism are no accident Tiff’s days as an innocent college student came to an abrupt end after a National Guardsman, pretending to be a Good Samaritan, raped her during the height of the storm’s fury.
Tiff’s skills as a living statue include extraordinary stealth and an uncanny ability to render her completely motionless. Using these “powers,” she transforms herself into a vigilante hero, combing the Quarter to fight evil and injustice, as well as to hunt down the man who plunged her life into despair during the storm’s darkest hours.

Well Tiff is a pretty nice character, determined and strong-willed even after getting abused brutally. Her sadistic and lonely life doesn't make you sorry for her; instead it makes you feel inspiring that what a young girl can do to make herself survive in the after-math of a deadly hurricane. She even helps other survivors to cheer up and feel better. But her fate is dark since she gets abused by a man and she is hell bound to find the identity of the men. Well the mystery aspect was fine. The twists were delivered by the author at the right moments, but the plot or the voice of narration lacked any kind of vividness or the feeling of making the readers a part of this girl's journey. But still the author has handled a female protagonist's voice quite well, the fact that he is a male author. The book has got a good pace and the author's voice has the power to make you feel emotional and he lets us see what a natural disaster can do. Moreover, because of that riveting mystery, the book turns out to be a compelling one. Read this book if you want to see how a living statue saves her from disaster and how she is the guardian angel of so many storm-hit people.

Thanks to the author, Kenneth Womack, for providing me with a copy of his book.
Awesome story
What a great book! Ken does an incredible job of taking his readers through 'the storm' as he weaves a wonderful story around hurricane Katrina and leads you through the streets of New Orleans that put you there among 'the Streets'. I couldn't put it down!
Ken Womack brought me back to the streets of New Orleans and put me in the shows of of a survivor, providing an experience I will never forget. It is easy to view epic events like Hurricane Katrina from a distance, relying on cold news sources and political posturing for the details. Now, I feel as if I had been there, and have a significantly better appreciation for the life changing impact of such a tragedy. And I can appreciate the creation of a survivor in the process. Well done!
Ken Womack’s chilling novel, Playing the Angel, is set in post-Katrina New Orleans, and as such, it’s a difficult (though riveting) book to read.
Being a native Louisianian who now resides in the state once again, I was totally and utterly unaware of the tragic conditions braved by the people who stayed in “Nawlins” and “rode the storm out”…that is, until I read this book. Playing the Angel is an eye-opening account of the danger and desolation faced by the survivors of 2005’s unfathomable hurricane.
Womack, who has written one of the most respected books about The Beatles and their music, Long and Winding Roads, has already proven himself as a skillful non-fiction writer. In Playing the Angel, however, he tackles fiction with similar finesse and establishes himself as a major player in that genre as well. His book is a page-turner.
Being so very familiar with New Orleans, I was skeptical that Womack (who resides in Pennsylvania) could capture the Crescent City accurately. I was amazed. Womack knows New Orleans the way I know Liverpool. He knows every highway and byway and completely understands its unique culture. Furthermore, Womack did extensive research into the lives of New Orleans’ street merchants…the hawkers who make up The French Quarter. And he spent several years researching the aftershocks of Hurricane Katrina talking to people who actually lived to “tell the tale,” reading newspaper articles, and doing interviews.
Playing the Angel is not a “feel good” book. It is a book that will leave vivid images in your mind that wake you up to what really happened once that bitch, Katrina, had “sashayed by.” New Orleans was raped. And that image comes to life in this book that traces the lives of an intermeshed group people (college students, street vendors, criminals, and National Guardsmen) who stayed in the city for the most dramatic moment they would ever, ever experience.
Full of rock’n’roll references, brash characters, and true-to-life action, Playing the Angel is not to be missed.