Hiroshima
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf ;, [2005].
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 20 cm.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.5425 HERSEY 1985
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940.5425 HERSEY 1985
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.5425 HERSEY 1985
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940.5425 HERSEY 1985
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction | 940.5425 HERSEY 1985 | On Shelf |
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction | 940.5425 HERSEY 1985 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf ;, [2005].
Format
Book
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 8.4, 9 Points
Level 8.4, 9 Points
Notes
General Note
"A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion."--1985 ed.
General Note
Originally appeared in the New Yorker.
Description
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
Description
Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Then he follows the course of their lives hour by hour, day by day. The New Yorker of August 31, 1946, devoted all its space to this story. The immediate repercussions were vast: newspapers here and abroad reprinted it; during evening half-hours it was read over the network of the American Broadcasting Company; leading editorials were devoted to it in uncounted newspapers. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them -- the variety of ways in which they responded to the past and went on with their lives -- is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.--,From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hersey, J. (2005). Hiroshima . Alfred A. Knopf ;.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hersey, John, 1914-1993. 2005. Hiroshima. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hersey, John, 1914-1993. Hiroshima Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hersey, John. Hiroshima Alfred A. Knopf ;, 2005.
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