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.
发表于2024-12-22
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《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《白城恶魔》书评 “这是一个最坏的时代,也是最好的时代。”——查尔斯·狄更斯 《白城恶魔》描写的是美国1893年举办芝加哥世博会准备期间、开放期间和闭幕之后的故事。分类虽是小说,但作者以记录历史的方式,在纸上复活了19世纪80年代的芝加哥,“黑城”。因为非虚构写作的...
评分城市一直是作家笔下最钟爱的题材,并且作品不可避免地被镌刻上城市独特的色彩。相比起劳伦斯·布洛克笔下包容而多彩的纽约,我很好奇,埃里克·拉森笔下的芝加哥又是什么样子呢? 同样是关于犯罪的小说,《小城》偏重于每个人物的描述,而《白城恶魔》角度要宏大得多,作者采取...
评分剑桥简明白城恶魔史 素有“侦探小说中的奥斯卡”之称的埃德加奖,全称为埃德加·爱伦·坡奖(Edgar Allan Poe Awards),是世界上最著名的侦探小说奖项之一。该奖设立于1946年,是为纪念侦探小说大师埃德加·爱伦·坡设立的文学大奖。 2004年,著名作冢埃里克.拉森(Erik Larson)...
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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.
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Didn't really meet my expectation.
评分真看不懂
评分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
The Devil in the White City 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书