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.
白城和恶魔。 他——美国有记录的第一位连环杀人狂,通过各种骗局让两百多人失去生命。 它——1893年芝加哥世博会,在美国经济大恐慌背景下的万人狂欢。 两个看起来毫不相干的主题,纠缠在了一起,最后又都化为虚无,是那个年代的缩影,抑或是世间本身的真理。 1, 芝加哥世博...
评分一九一二年的那艘泰坦尼克号仿佛承载了许多故事的开头和结尾。船触礁的瞬间就已经迸发出无数珍贵而凄婉的故事。《百城恶魔》的故事也得以因为这次“航海史上黑暗的日子”这样开始了。 时间倒退四十年。十九世纪末的美国正处于近代化工业的完成和垄断资本主义的过渡期。美国开始...
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《王国与权力》、《被仰望与被遗忘的》作者盖伊·特立斯开创出了前无古人的非虚构写作手法,20世纪的纽约,这座飞速发展的城市,冷冰冰的钢铁森林在他的笔下绽放出了别样的生命力,从摩天大楼到犄角旮旯,从美酒佳肴到残羹冷炙,从光鲜亮丽的白领到衣衫褴褛的流浪汉。他将城市...
评分硬要把这两件事写在一起有些牵强,不过杀人魔部分的确令人读得引人入胜
评分能打六颗星吗?文笔太出色了!
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one of the most fascinating books i've ever read
评分像小说一样流畅的历史加真实犯罪的书,怪不得会成为学校必读书目之一。我既喜欢又恨作者像织网那样把两个故事 - 一个宏伟,一个惊傈 - 穿插在一起。 -- 2009-6-1
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