To Sleep with the Angels

Szerző: David Cowan, John Kuenster

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Ivan R Dee, Inc

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago a...

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Szerző

David Cowan, John Kuenster

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1998

oldal

320

EAN

9781566632171

ISBN

156663217X

Enbook ID

05082589

Kiadó

Ivan R Dee, Inc

Súly

466

Méretek

227 x 154 x 21

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If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago almost forty years ago was an extraordinary moment of grief. One of the deadliest fires in American history, it took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels School, left many families physically and psychologically scarred for life, and destroyed a close-knit working-class neighborhood. This is the moving story of that fire and its consequences written by two journalists who have been obsessed with the events of that terrible day in December 1958. It is a story of ordinary people caught up in a disaster that shocked the nation. In gripping detail, those who were there-children, teachers, firefighters-describe the fear, desperation, and panic that prevailed in and around the stricken school building on that cold Monday afternoon. But beyond the flames, the story of the fire at Our Lady of the Angels became an enigma whose mystery has deepened with time: its cause was never officially explained despite evidence that it had been intentionally set by a troubled student at the school. The fire led to a complete overhaul of fire safety standards for American schools, but it left a community torn apart by grief and anger, and accusations that the Catholic church and city fathers had shielded the truth. Messrs. Cowan and Kuenster have recreated this tragedy in a powerful narrative with all the elements of a first-rate detective story.

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