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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.
- 芝加哥
- 历史
- 英文原版
- ErikLarson
- history
- 镀金时代
- nonfiction
- 小说
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.
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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...
评分两条支线在一个爆炸发展又物欲横流的时代平行推进，明灭不定的交流电灯隐晦地预示着一念之差指向的大荣大枯。没人知道，在无数人为建造一座光明城呕心沥血积劳成疾时，有一场甚至数场诡谲的风暴在眼前隐秘地涌动。 埃里克▪拉森用最忠实的细节刻画了一个精于伪装的天才：罪恶...
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故事展开实在是慢，大量的篇幅都围绕the white city在写，我要看的是the devil好不？！
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engaging story of the time
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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