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发表于2024-05-15
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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.
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.
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
评分应该是很好的一本historical non-fiction,但是我就是不能connect。所以等着看电影了。
评分one of the most fascinating books i've ever read
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The Devil in the White City pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024