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John Hersey (1) (1914–1993)

Autor/a de Hiroshima

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57+ obres 11,087 Membres 192 Ressenyes 9 preferits

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Crèdit de la imatge: from Wikipedia Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958 (Library of Congress)

Obres de John Hersey

Hiroshima (1989) 3,274 exemplars
Hiroshima (Expanded edition) (1946) 1,960 exemplars
A Bell for Adano (1944) 1,111 exemplars
The Wall (1946) 691 exemplars
Hiroshima (1985) 674 exemplars
A Single Pebble (1956) 319 exemplars
The Child Buyer (1960) 293 exemplars
White Lotus (1965) 233 exemplars
The Call (1985) 196 exemplars
The Conspiracy (1972) 174 exemplars
Blues (1987) 170 exemplars
The War Lover: A Novel (1959) — Autor — 167 exemplars
The Algiers Motel Incident (1968) 164 exemplars
Too Far to Walk (1966) 162 exemplars
Antonietta (1991) 135 exemplars
Under the Eye of the Storm (1967) 128 exemplars
Key West Tales: Stories (1993) 107 exemplars
My Petition for More Space (1974) 104 exemplars
Hiroshima (1972) 86 exemplars
Of Men and War (1963) 81 exemplars
Hiroshima (Armas Y Letras) (1989) 69 exemplars
Here to stay (1962) 64 exemplars
Life Sketches (1989) 58 exemplars
Fling And Other Stories (1990) 46 exemplars
The Walnut Door (1900) 45 exemplars
The Marmot Drive (1953) 39 exemplars
Great Modern Short Novels (1966) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
Letter to the Alumni (1970) 29 exemplars
The Writer's Craft (1974) 19 exemplars
The President (1975) 17 exemplars
Men on Bataan (1942) 10 exemplars
Hiroshima 7 exemplars
Il muro di Varsavia - vol. 1 (1979) 3 exemplars
South of Cancer (1951) 3 exemplars
La Muraille, tome 2 (1979) 2 exemplars
Robert Capa 1 exemplars
2023 31 HIROHISMA 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Main Street / Babbitt (1992) — Editor — 439 exemplars
Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Col·laborador — 437 exemplars
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Col·laborador — 275 exemplars
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Col·laborador — 217 exemplars
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Col·laborador — 214 exemplars
Manzanar (1988) — Commentary — 157 exemplars
The New Yorker Book of War Pieces: London, 1939 to Hiroshima, 1945 (1947) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of True War Stories (1992) — Col·laborador — 87 exemplars
Combat: Pacific Theater (1959) — Autor, algunes edicions83 exemplars
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1956 v03 (1956) — Col·laborador — 35 exemplars

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So interesting to read this after seeing Oppenheimer at the movie theater this year. Two bookends. I was sort of amazed at how people got going again after the explosion. Human resilience is amazing.
 
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spounds | Hi ha 36 ressenyes més | Jan 8, 2024 |
John Hersey was an American journalist and was one of the first writers allowed into Hiroshima, right after the bombing. First published in 1946, this short, powerful account centers on 6 of the survivors. In their own words they describe the day of the bombing and the horrifying aftermath. It is painful to read at times but their own resilience shines through. Forty years later, Hersey returned to Hiroshima and updated their stories. I am so glad I stumbled on this classic book and it made a terrific audio experience too, narrated by the masterful George Guidall.… (més)
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msf59 | Hi ha 49 ressenyes més | Nov 17, 2023 |
A seminal change in reporting style, the zoomed in view of a handful of people to represent the tragedies of the bombing has a very gripping narrative of the events and aftermath, but becomes increasingly diffuse as it continues to follow their lives long after the events of the bombing. It completes the stories of their lives and the rebuilding efforts, but at the same time dilutes the catastrophe of the bombing itself. Is it more honest to continue the story as life just goes on? Would it have been just gratuitous to linger? Certainly the report itself seems to conclude most people did not reflect deeply on the whys, and either dealt with the trauma and medical aftermath - or not.… (més)
 
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A.Godhelm | Hi ha 36 ressenyes més | Oct 20, 2023 |
Hiroshima follows the lives of six Hiroshima bombing survivors from the moments before the blast on August 6th, 1945 at 8:15 a.m. to the aftermath of the following year: Miss Toshiko Sasaki, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Mrs. Hatsyo Nakamura, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki (no relation to Miss Toshiko), Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, and Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | Hi ha 36 ressenyes més | Sep 14, 2023 |

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Obres
57
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Membres
11,087
Popularitat
#2,127
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
192
ISBN
268
Llengües
16
Preferit
9

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