Erik Larson’s latest work of narrative nonfiction is DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA, which became an immediate New York Times bestseller. His saga of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing, and lingered on various NYT best-seller lists for the better part of a decade. Hulu plans to adapt the book for a limited TV series, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese as executive producers. Erik’s IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, about America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany and his daughter, has been optioned by Tom Hanks for development as a feature film.
His next book, THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A SAGA OF CHURCHILL, FAMILY, AND DEFIANCE DURING THE BLITZ, due out in early spring 2020, is a story of geopolitical brinksmanship during Churchill’s first year as prime minister, but also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country house, Chequers, and his “full-moon home,” Ditchley, where Churchill, his family, and his “Secret Circle” convene when the moon is in its brightest phases and the bombing threat is highest.
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.
He has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the University of Oregon, and the Chuckanut Writers Conference, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. A former resident of Seattle, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife, a neonatologist and 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 and professions.
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons (30,000 of them Londoners) and destroying two million homes. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally--that she was willing to fight to the end.
##用近乎小說的寫法,敘述瞭1940年5月到的941年5月丘吉爾作二戰期間英國首相第一年的點點滴滴:40年5月底6月初的敦刻爾剋,9月開始的德國空軍對倫敦和英國其他地區的轟炸,丘吉爾對羅斯福及其特派人員的“投懷送抱”但又同時要麵對本國人民對他過分依賴美國的批判,還有他身邊親近人物的故事(女兒Mary,私人秘書之一的Colville-這兩人的日記有被作者大量引用),以及一些普通英國民眾的心酸(作者依舊是引用私人日記和一些雜誌收集的讀者迴復)。看得齣作者是用心的,也是想在眾多的丘吉爾/二戰研究作品中脫穎而齣獨樹一幟。文筆並沒有很特彆,感覺還可以再精雕細琢一些,不過估計也就不會有那麼大的受眾瞭吧。
評分 評分##類似紀錄片的書,通過信件等較可靠的證據,迴憶瞭丘吉爾上任首相一年來生活的點滴。反復齣現的主題包括,說服羅斯福參戰,對德國的進攻頑固抵抗,女兒Mary天真少女,兒子賭博不靠譜,美麗兒媳Pamela從失落到放棄婚姻開始外遇,好朋友當軍事部長反復提辭職,忠心耿耿的保鏢,有著參軍熱血的秘書。是位堅毅偉大有個性的首相。一星扣給有聲書,口音太重,每次讀Mary的信聲音都裝得很嗲。
評分##不知道為什麼,全是large print,難道讀者都是老年人嗎?作者功課做到位,當時丘吉爾女兒和秘書日記很給力。大眾日記也給力。二戰總有些細節令人驚訝。
評分 評分 評分 評分##take me forever to march through this book
評分##好看好看好看!隻講瞭一年的曆史,但密度很大,丘吉爾身邊大到軍事計劃小到秘書的戀愛史都提到瞭。雖然很長字體很小,讀得不輕鬆,但寫得非常有畫麵感,曆史和當事人的感想穿插,有層次深度。
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