| Authors |
Capuzzo, Mike |
| Nonfiction Categories |
Biography & Autobiography |
| Summary |
| When a shark began prowling the New Jersey coastline in the summer of 1916, the summer before United States entered World War I, those summering there in the idyllic hideaway of the nation's elite had cause for alarm. This study draws a portrait of this early assault on the Gilded Age--when a seemingly invulnerable leisure class saw early signs of its own mortality. Here, the four-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated author depicts the crisis through an investigation of its unique characters--its alarmed citizens, sensational press, and opportunist politicians. |
| Professional Reviews |
| Entertainment Weekly: "What we have here, folks, is the first beach book of the season....Just be careful which beach you read it on." Times Literary Supplement: "It grabs you quickly, reels you in with confidence, and develops into far more than a rip-off of JAWS. CLOSE TO SHORE is a hard book to stop reading, even during its least grisly passages." New Yorker: "[A]n artistry reminiscent of Stephen Crane's 'Whilomville Stories'....Capuzzo's book is a portrait of the shark as much as of the era, and deserves a place among the adventure classics." Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.): "Capuzzo's writing is richly descriptive, with shimmering paragraphs that are alive with ripples, murk and lancets of color. The most effective moments in his book are hallucinogenic without seeming quite unreal...." |
| Book Details |
Format: Audio - Audio Cassette (ISBN: 055352769X)
Date Published: 05/01/2001 (published by Random House)
Narrator: Len Cariou
Format: Audio - Compact Disc (ISBN: 0553712039)
Date Published: 05/01/2001 (published by Random House)
Narrator: Len Cariou
Format: Hardcover (ISBN: 0783895933)
Date Published: 11/01/2001 (published by Thorndike Pr)
389 pages, Large Print
Co-Author: Michael Capuzzo |
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