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Unabridged
ISBN:
9780739353011
Content:
"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'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. To find out more about this book, go to http://www.DevilInTheWhiteCity.com. From the Hardcover edition. "
Content:
Biographisches: " Erik Larson is the author of five national bestsellers, including The Devil in the White City and In the Garden of Beasts , which have collectively sold more than 6.5 million copies. His books have been published in seventeen countries. Scott Brick , an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. His stage appearances throughout the US include Cyrano , Hamlet, and MacBeth . In the audio industry, Scott has won over 20 Earphones Awards, as well as the 2003 Audie Award in the Best Science Fiction category for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad . After recording nearly 250 books in five years, AudioFile Magazine named Scott one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy and proclaimed him one of their Golden Voices. Brick's range is unparalleled as he reads thrillers to narrative nonfiction, from biographies to science fiction with aplomb." Rezension(2): " Chicago Tribune :Engrossing . exceedingly well documented . utterly fascinating." Rezension(3): "The New York Times :A dynamic, enveloping book. . Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramtic effect of a novel. . It doesn't hurt that this truth is stranger than fiction." Rezension(4): " Esquire :So good, you find yourself asking how you could not know this already." Rezension(5): " USA Today :Another successful exploration of American history. . Larson skillfully balances the grisly details with the far-reaching implications of the World's Fair." Rezension(6): " San Francisco Chronicle :As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find." Rezension(7): " Entertainment Weekly :Paints a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure the American century to come." Rezension(8): " Chicago Sun-Times :A wonderfully unexpected book. Larson is a historian . with a novelist's soul." Rezension(9): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:A guilty pleasure is this true story of nineteenth-century serial killer Henry Holmes, as it relates (with some stretch of credulity) to the Colombian Exposition of 1893, erected on Chicago's Southside, not far from Holmes's lair. The author, who writes more like a carnival pitchman than an investigative reporter, fills his account with fascinating detail, and even when the detail isn't fascinating, he tries to make it so with florid description. Scott Brick attacks this material with relish, narrating with a sardonic edge and masterful attention to phrasing. Okay, he should have looked up the pronunciation of phaeton, calumet, and a few other terms, but if we pretend not to notice, we'll have a lot of perverse fun. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine"
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Auszeichnungen: Mystery Writers of America:Edgar Allan Poe Award
Language:
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