Hiroshima - by John Hersey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Hiroshima</i> is the story of six people--a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest--who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize-winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of <i>Hiroshima.</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Nothing can be said about this book that can equal what the book has to say. It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/> "One of the great classics of the war." --<i>The New Republic</i> <p/>"Everyone able to read should read it." --<i>Saturday Review of Literature</i><br> <i> </i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>JOHN HERSEY was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis's secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947 he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and Chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.
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