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Cargando... Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Franciscopor Robert Graysmith
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. If you are reading it because of the Mark Twain/Tom Sawyer connection, you may be disappointed. I enjoyed the study of San Francisco at the time and of fire fighting in general , but felt a little cheated as I had been hooked by hopes of Twain stories ( ) It's a very interesting subject, and, though I am not familiar with San Francisco, Graysmith did a fine job of conveying where the fires went and what they destroyed. And how stupidly the residents leaped into rebuilding, even before the smoke had faded. He stumbles, though, in his efforts to drag Mark Twain into the story. That's really another book. Tom Sawyer is not the hero of the fire, he's often peripheral to the events. I read it pretty fast -- I'm interested in fires. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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