The Plague Year
Autor Lawrence Wrighten Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 ian 2023
'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The Observer
Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second.
The story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality already some ten times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War.
This is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of America's great strengths - its scientific knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community - were brought low, not by a terrifying new illness alone, but by political incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which there has been no precedent.
With insight, sympathy, clarity and rage, The Plague Year allows the reader to see the unfolding of this great tragedy, talking with individuals on the front line, bringing together many moving and surprising stories and painting a devastating picture of a country literally and fatally misled.
'Maddening and sobering - as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we've yet seen' Kirkus
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141998138
ISBN-10: 014199813X
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 132 x 211 x 2 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 014199813X
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 132 x 211 x 2 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Notă biografică
Lawrence Wright has written for many years for the New Yorker and is the author of the bestselling The Looming Tower, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Recenzii
A
devastating
analysis
...
Wright
is
a
master
of
knitting
together
complex
narratives
...A
story
about
hubris
and
division,
complacency
and
insularity,
but
most
of
all
precariousness.
In hischaracteristically rigorous and engrossing style, Wright documents innumerable episodes of ineptitude and malfeasance ...Maddening and sobering - as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we've yet seen.
A virtuoso feat... [Wright has] given us a book ofpanoramic breadth, [ranging] from science to politics to economics to culture with a commanding scrutiny, managing to surprise us about even those episodes we have only recently lived through and thought we knew well. The story he tells isimmediate and often piercingly intimate... Wright's storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.
Arresting, lean-limbed, immersive ...Rich with peerless reportage and incisive critique... Translates the complexities of epidemiology into plain English ...Wright is at his commanding best.
Insightful ... Indispensable as a coronavirus compendium.Very little escapes Wright's notice, and he is adept at placing the ongoing story in an enlightening context.
Taut, thriller-like,The Plague Yearcaptures the chaos and courage of this unprecedented era that's forever changed us.
By far the best book yet on COVID-19... [An] exemplary chronicle [with] countless examples of hope, sacrifice, and heroic feats. Wright's interviews with experts in virology, economics, public health, history, politics, and medicine are enlightening ...Wright is at his finest herein frontline research, expert analysis, and lucid writing.
[An] incredibly-crafted telling... [Wright] is an earnest prober, with sober-minded curiosity ... [He] provides a well-wrought map covering the institutions and politicians that failed America during this stretch of the pandemic [and] crucially highlights those that also saved us - the first responders and the reasonable.
In hischaracteristically rigorous and engrossing style, Wright documents innumerable episodes of ineptitude and malfeasance ...Maddening and sobering - as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we've yet seen.
A virtuoso feat... [Wright has] given us a book ofpanoramic breadth, [ranging] from science to politics to economics to culture with a commanding scrutiny, managing to surprise us about even those episodes we have only recently lived through and thought we knew well. The story he tells isimmediate and often piercingly intimate... Wright's storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.
Arresting, lean-limbed, immersive ...Rich with peerless reportage and incisive critique... Translates the complexities of epidemiology into plain English ...Wright is at his commanding best.
Insightful ... Indispensable as a coronavirus compendium.Very little escapes Wright's notice, and he is adept at placing the ongoing story in an enlightening context.
Taut, thriller-like,The Plague Yearcaptures the chaos and courage of this unprecedented era that's forever changed us.
By far the best book yet on COVID-19... [An] exemplary chronicle [with] countless examples of hope, sacrifice, and heroic feats. Wright's interviews with experts in virology, economics, public health, history, politics, and medicine are enlightening ...Wright is at his finest herein frontline research, expert analysis, and lucid writing.
[An] incredibly-crafted telling... [Wright] is an earnest prober, with sober-minded curiosity ... [He] provides a well-wrought map covering the institutions and politicians that failed America during this stretch of the pandemic [and] crucially highlights those that also saved us - the first responders and the reasonable.