ISBN: 9780618773473
Editorial: Mariner Books
Año de edición: 2006
Edición: 1
N° Paginas: 340
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Críticas [A] fierce, humane account of the dreams and extremes that crashed head on during the nearly decade-long calamity of the Dust Bowl. The New York Times [A] vivid and gritty piece of forgotten history.USA Today The Worst Hard Time provides a sobering, gripping account of a disaster whose wounds are still not fully healed today.Boston Globe The Worst Hard Time is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction.The Baltimore Sun Egan has admirably captured a part of our American experience that should not be forgotten.The San Francisco Chronicle Egan is a passionate and accomplished writer...Read this for history, not inspiration or entertainment.The Denver Post Egan's account of the Dust Bowl era is a final, terrible rebuke to the policies of America's dying days of frontier expansion.The Seattle Times THE WORST HARD TIME is a flat-out masterpiece of historical reportage.Seattle Post-Intelligencer In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award-winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, "the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is "arguably the best nonfiction book yet" (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature. Biografía del autor TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a New York Times columnist, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in nonfiction. His previous books include The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award, and the national bestseller The Big Burn. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Egan, Timothy
- Editorial: Mariner Books
- N° Paginas: 340
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
