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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0613627350
ISBN-13: 9780613627351
Jul 2003
Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916., The true story of the shark attacks that terrorized those that lived and vacationed along the New Jersey coastline in the summer of 1916. Written for children, this is an adaptation of the authors' adult book CLOSE TO SHORE: A TRUE STORY OF TERROR IN AN AGE OF INNOCENCE. Illustrated with period photographs., 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.
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"What we have here, folks, is the first beach book of the season....Just be careful which beach you read it on."
Entertainment Weekly - Daniel Fierman (05/11/2001)
"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...."
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) - Sally Eckhoff (07/01/2001)
"[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."
New Yorker (07/09/2001)
"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."
Times Literary Supplement - Scott Bradfield (11/30/2001)
"Capuzzo delivers all the terror promised in his subtitle, but he also explores seriously the social mores and scientific misunderstanding that heightened both the likelihood of attacks and delay in evacuation."
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - Elizabeth Bush (06/01/2003)
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