The Devil in the White City

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.

出版者:Vintage

作者:Erik Larson

页数:447

出版时间:10 February, 2004

价格:$14.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780375725609

图书标签:芝加哥历史英文原版ErikLarsonhistory镀金时代nonfiction小说

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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.

读后感

本周有一条新鲜热辣的娱乐新闻，说迪卡普里奥要拍新片，饰演“美国史料记录的第一个系列杀人犯亨利•霍华德•贺姆斯医生”。这部电影是根据畅销书《The Devil in the White City》改编的，除了贺姆斯医生之外，另一个主角是著名的建筑师丹尼尔•哈德森•伯汉。一个是兴...  

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用户评价

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

真看不懂

虽然连环杀手大概是更大的噱头，我倒更喜欢世博会的篇幅。Burnham当年碰到的各种困难，官僚主义，权力斗争，合伙人的意外死亡，芝加哥的恶劣的地质条件和天气，罢工，火灾，经济萧条等等等等，实在是让我对自己工作中碰到的问题汗颜。这么坚毅的Burnham，在给自己老婆写信的时候又呈现出完全不同的一面，各种倾诉相思之苦，实在是甜死啦

one of the most fascinating books i've ever read

精彩之处就在于你已经知道了结果，但不知道当事人到底是怎样达成这个结果。而且种种跌宕起伏都是真实发生的事实，并不是make-believe drama，所以更加令人震惊。书中串连起来了很多人，读着读着会发出感叹，噢，回来是他/她啊！非常有意思。