Erik Larson is the author of six national bestsellers—The Splendid and the Vile, Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and Isaac’s Storm—which have collectively sold more than ten million copies. His books have been published in nearly twenty countries.
“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more
compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Gripping ... the Jaws of hurricane yarns.” —The Washington
Post
"The best storm book I've read, consumed mostly in twenty-four
hours; these pages filled me with dread. Days later, I am still
glancing out the window nervously. A well-told story." —Daniel
Hays, author of My Old Man and the Sea
"Isaac's Storm so fully swept me away into another place, another
time that I didn't want it to end. I braced myself from the
monstrous winds, recoiled in shock at the sight of flailing
children floating by, and shook my head at the hubris of our
scientists who were so convinced that they had the weather all
figured out. Erik Larson's writing is luminous, the story
absolutely gripping. If there is one book to read as we enter a new
millennium, it's Isaac's Storm, a tale that reminds us that there
are forces at work out there well beyond our control, and maybe
even well beyond our understanding." —Alex Kotlowitz, author of The
Other Side of the River and There Are No Children Here
"There is electricity in these pages, from the crackling wit and
intelligence of the prose to the thrillingly described terrors of
natural mayhem and unprecedented destruction. Though brimming with
the subtleties of human nature, the nuances of history, and the
poetry of landscapes, Isaac's Storm still might best be described
as a sheer page turner." —Melissa Faye Greene, author of Praying
for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing
"Superb…. Larson has made [Isaac] Cline, turn-of-the-century
Galveston, and the Great Hurricane live again." —The Wall Street
Journal
"Erik Laron's accomplishment is to have made this great-storm story
a very human one —thanks to his use of the large number of
survivors' accounts—without ignoring the hurricane itself." —The
Boston Globe
"Vividly captures the devastation." —Newsday
"This brilliant exploration of the hurrican's deadly force...tracks
the gathering storm as if it were a character…. Larson has the
storyteller's gift of keeping the reader spellbound." —The
Times-Picayune
"With consumate narrative skill and insight into
turn-of-the-century American culture…. Larson's story is about
the folly of all who believe that man can master or outwit the
forces of nature." —The News & Observer
"A powerful story ... a classic tale of mankind versus nature."
—The Christian Science Monitor
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