ISBN: 9780316200592
Editorial: Back Bay Books
Año de edición: 2016
Edición: 1
N° Paginas: 512
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Críticas The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.--Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The QuartetThe Witches is a vivid investigation of the original American nightmare. Stacy Schiff brilliantly teases apart the strands of myth and history. In an age when superstition remains a vibrant and dangerous force, her book is, alas, also relevant.--Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World[A] fresh take on the Salem witch trials.--Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Boston Globe[A] must-read.--Joanna Coles, Cosmopolitan[Schiff] brings her gifts to the confusions of Salem, piecing together a dramatic narrative from disparate and often tersely unrevealing sources, including diaries, memoirs, and court reports. She never lacks for an apt detail, drawing on academic studies that focus on everything from the region's sexual mores to the way sounds echoed in the atmosphere.--Ruth Franklin, Harper's[Schiff] reconstructs the time and place in remarkable detail, offering portraits of the protagonists in all their poignant, if often infuriating, humanity. Through an immersive narrative involving a cast of dozens pulled from the historical record, Schiff skillfully re-creates the visceral tensions at the heart of everyday life in the Massachusetts Bay settlement.--Peter Manseau, BookforumA brilliant, exceptionally well-researched account of the 1692 Salem witch trials.... Much of what is so compelling about The Witches is how vividly Schiff brings this very different era to life.... This narrative approach works so well because Schiff just happens to be a superb and witty writer.... The Witches definitely sparkles.--Alden Mudge, BookPageA masterful account.... Schiff painstakingly reconstructs not just the events of 1692 but the world that birthed them.... Her accomplishment is all the more remarkable because there are no records of the court sessions-Schiff sifted through archival material as well as historical accounts written by witnesses years after the epidemic.--Elizabeth Hand, Los Angeles TimesA vivid picture of 1692 Massachusetts [that] brings the Salem trials to life.--Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express NewsCompulsively readable.... Schiff expertly unknots what drove the Puritans to mass delusion. The reasons are timeless.... That the 1692 Salem witch trials were an anomaly is an illusion of the vantage point; we remain fascinated because we sense in our skin (and see in the news) that the same could be happening right now.--Nancy Rommelmann, NewsdayCompulsively readable.... The best-selling Schiff never disappoints, and her eagerly anticipated account of the Salem witchcraft tragedy lives up to expectations, providing a fascinating account of one of the most infamous years in American history.--Margaret Flanagan, Booklist (starred review)Dazzling.... Schiff is at her best, infusing a historical event with as much life, mystery, and tragedy of any novelist.--Nicole Jones, Vanity FairEnchanting. Out of the shadows of the past come excitable young girls, pompous ministers, abusive judges, grieving parents, and angry neighbors, all of them caught up in a terrifying process that seemed to have no end: discovering who among them deserved death for being in league with Satan. The Witches is as close as we will ever come to understanding what happened in and around Salem in 1692. Courtrooms, streets, churches, farm yards, taverns, bedrooms-all became theater-like places where anger, anxiety, sorrow, and tragedy are entangled. An astonishing achievement.--David D. Hall, Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History, Harvard UniversityFantastic.--Kristin Van Ogtrop, TimeFew authors set the scene of history quite like Stacy Schiff.... The Witches brings a fresh eye to the worst misogynist atrocity in American history, tracing the complex cultural and psychological origins of the Puritan hysteria.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Schiff, Stacy
- Editorial: Back Bay Books
- N° Paginas: 512
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
