thhwa.blogg.se - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

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“Gripping drama, captured with a reporter’s nose for a good story and a novelist’s flair for telling it…Superb. “This is, in effect, the nonfiction Alienist everything popular history should be.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep-defying fiction.” -Time Out New York “ vivid history of the glittering Chicago World’s Fair and its dark side.” -New York magazine, best pick of the week “A great story, recounted with authority, entertainment, and insight…Larson writes with marvelous confidence, enthusiasm, polish, and scholarship.” -New York Daily News Larson skillfully balances the grisly details with the far-reaching implications of the Worlds Fair.” -USA Today “Another successful exploration of American history. “So good, you find yourself asking how you could not know this already.” -Esquire

with a novelist’s soul.” -Chicago Sun-Times Review

“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” -San Francisco Chronicle Its joined tales of an urban utopia with a sensational understory of the torture of innocents deserves to be hugely popular.” -Chicago Tribune Exceedingly well-documented, exhaustive without being excessive, and utterly fascinating. “A hugely engrossing chronicle of events public and private. Larson has written a dynamic, enveloping book….It doesn’t hurt that this truth is stranger than fiction.” -The New York Times “ relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel. In November 2010, Leonardo DiCaprio acquired the rights to make a feature film based on Devil, and has stated he plans to play the role of the killer, Dr. The book won an Edgar Award for best fact-crime writing, and was a finalist for a National Book Award.

Just blocks from the fairgrounds, the killer built a hotel of horrors equipped with an acid vat, dissection table and crematorium.

1 New York Times bestseller about the architect who led the construction of the great Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, and the prolific serial killer who used the fair as a lure. The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America