Erik Larson, author of the international bestseller Isaac's Storm, was nominated for a National Book Award for The Devil in the White City, which also won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing. His latest book, In the Garden of Beasts: Love Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, has been acquired for publication in 20 countries and optioned by Tom Hanks for a feature film. Erik is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.
Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. He lives in Seattle with his wife, who is the director of neonatology at the University of Washington Medical Center and at Children's Hospital of Seattle, and the author of the nonfiction memoir, Almost Home, which, as Erik puts it, "could make a stone cry." They have three daughters in far-flung locations.
Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.
The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.
白城,在蛮夷中逐步崛起的西部城市芝加哥;恶魔,在欺侮中成长起来的天才罪犯霍姆斯。两条穿插其中的线干净利落,如两只扑面而来的蝴蝶,线条分明,翩跹低飞着引领我走进这一场危险又迷人的空前盛会。 这是一本充满惊喜的书,用小说的技法讲述历史,用丰厚的史料填充故事。曲折...
评分 评分萧条乱世下的变态人格 ——读《白城恶魔》 朱延嵩/文 白城芝加哥在19世纪末叶是个什么情况?—无法确认姓名的死亡事件时常发生,你可能一走下人行道就被芝加哥特快列车撞死,每天都有几十人在火灾中丧生。1892年上半年,芝加哥发生近八百起暴力致死事件。这些是危言耸听吗?长...
评分《黑客帝国》里,墨菲斯展开双手分别放着两颗药丸,红色和蓝色,他对尼奥说,红色知道真相但会很痛苦,蓝色会睡个好觉,第二天上班、下班,生活依旧。无疑,吞下红色会进入真实的世界,那么蓝色则是虚幻的世界,我常常无法理解什么样的生活才是真实的生活,就像《阿凡达》的主...
评分黄金实时代的白城恶魔 “在世间消失无踪,是多么容易。” 在岁月的长河里,一个人、一座宏伟的建筑能经历多少的风雨?而一个历史事件、一个人、一座建筑消逝在岁月里又是极其容易的一件事。岁月见证了那个时代历史的发展,在世界历史上不乏“黄金时代”的频繁出现,在那个我们...
DNF。写的真是无聊啊。
评分这是我看过的第二部non-fiction,导师Steve推荐的,当时差点还给我买了一本。这本书让我彻底的爱上了芝加哥的城市,然后我每次去芝加哥的时候,都要按照书中的内容,去探索。这部书简直就是导游啊
评分Didn't really meet my expectation.
评分对白城建造过程的描写可以说是巨细靡遗,后期收尾相比之下有点潦草了,以致于整本书最为胆战心惊悬念迭起的部分不在于Holmes的骇人罪行如何被揭露,变成了建筑师怎么在ddl前如期完工。
评分好过瘾的non-fiction书!讲述的是19世纪末芝加哥世博会前夕的一段真实连续杀人故事,由兴建纽约熨斗大楼的建筑师和外貌文雅内心邪恶的医生并行组成,也是因为这两条精彩的线牵引了我从昨天下午一直看到今天早晨4点多,其间还看了两集同时代英伦岛上的开膛街,可惜白天还要劳动,否则能再睡一大觉就完美了!
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