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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.
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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.
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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)...
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...
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好过瘾的non-fiction书！讲述的是19世纪末芝加哥世博会前夕的一段真实连续杀人故事，由兴建纽约熨斗大楼的建筑师和外貌文雅内心邪恶的医生并行组成，也是因为这两条精彩的线牵引了我从昨天下午一直看到今天早晨4点多，其间还看了两集同时代英伦岛上的开膛街，可惜白天还要劳动，否则能再睡一大觉就完美了！
评分#Chicago in the Grinder Age# #1st serial killer in the American History#还是去读侦探小说算了，嗯哼。
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评分好过瘾的non-fiction书！讲述的是19世纪末芝加哥世博会前夕的一段真实连续杀人故事，由兴建纽约熨斗大楼的建筑师和外貌文雅内心邪恶的医生并行组成，也是因为这两条精彩的线牵引了我从昨天下午一直看到今天早晨4点多，其间还看了两集同时代英伦岛上的开膛街，可惜白天还要劳动，否则能再睡一大觉就完美了！
评分#Chicago in the Grinder Age# #1st serial killer in the American History#还是去读侦探小说算了，嗯哼。
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