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...
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評分應該是很好的一本historical non-fiction,但是我就是不能connect。所以等著看電影瞭。
评分DNF。寫的真是無聊啊。
评分把兩個故事寫的引人入勝,可問題是除瞭時間的重閤有什麼必要把兩個故事寫一起嗎? Recommended by Prof. Stephan Garnett
评分對白城建造過程的描寫可以說是巨細靡遺,後期收尾相比之下有點潦草瞭,以緻於整本書最為膽戰心驚懸念迭起的部分不在於Holmes的駭人罪行如何被揭露,變成瞭建築師怎麼在ddl前如期完工。
评分engaging story of the time
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