图书标签: 美国 非虚构 图书馆 历史 英文原版 传记 英文 美国文学
发表于2024-11-04
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On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?
Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
In The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago.
Along the way, Orlean introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters from libraries past and present—from Mary Foy, who in 1880 at eighteen years old was named the head of the Los Angeles Public Library at a time when men still dominated the role, to Dr. C.J.K. Jones, a pastor, citrus farmer, and polymath known as “The Human Encyclopedia” who roamed the library dispensing information; from Charles Lummis, a wildly eccentric journalist and adventurer who was determined to make the L.A. library one of the best in the world, to the current staff, who do heroic work every day to ensure that their institution remains a vital part of the city it serves.
Brimming with her signature wit, insight, compassion, and talent for deep research, The Library Book is Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks that reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country. It is also a master journalist’s reminder that, perhaps especially in the digital era, they are more necessary than ever.
Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York and may be reached at SusanOrlean.com and Twitter.com/SusanOrlean.
一个伟大的公共机构:图书馆的历史。Orlean这本关于洛杉矶公共图书馆的书充满了各种奇妙的人物,对于世界、知识和人的想法和热爱。写的真流畅,看了停不下来。
评分一个伟大的公共机构:图书馆的历史。Orlean这本关于洛杉矶公共图书馆的书充满了各种奇妙的人物,对于世界、知识和人的想法和热爱。写的真流畅,看了停不下来。
评分文笔是不错了,但是描述太主观了,想看的是客观的介绍而不是作者的自传(描写作者自己找了一本书来做实验烧烧看居然写了整整一章,really?),尤其描写Harry Peak那部分,语言中充值着作者的主观臆断,优越感,甚至还有一丝淡淡的种族歧视
评分fun facts
评分喜欢一切有关书的书。洛杉矶公共图书馆的大火的前前后后,写得详尽,但是并不繁琐。
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评分1986年4月29号,一场燃烧了七个半小时的熊熊烈火,烧毁/损坏了洛杉矶中央图书馆一半的藏书,超过一百万册。堪称美国历史上最严重、损失最惨重的一次图书馆大火。这次失火后中央图书馆关张整整六年。几十万册被火烧烟熏水浸过的图书(其中包括多个全国最大的collection)被紧急...
评分1986年4月29号,一场燃烧了七个半小时的熊熊烈火,烧毁/损坏了洛杉矶中央图书馆一半的藏书,超过一百万册。堪称美国历史上最严重、损失最惨重的一次图书馆大火。这次失火后中央图书馆关张整整六年。几十万册被火烧烟熏水浸过的图书(其中包括多个全国最大的collection)被紧急...
评分1986年4月29号,一场燃烧了七个半小时的熊熊烈火,烧毁/损坏了洛杉矶中央图书馆一半的藏书,超过一百万册。堪称美国历史上最严重、损失最惨重的一次图书馆大火。这次失火后中央图书馆关张整整六年。几十万册被火烧烟熏水浸过的图书(其中包括多个全国最大的collection)被紧急...
评分"What can you do to actually merge into and feel belonged to a city?"is a popular hashtag for a Chinese community. This new nation of migrants from rural to urban, farm to cities, are craving for shortcuts to find home and belonging in new landscape. Out of...
The Library Book pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024