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1 DAY
The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Buch von Gene Weingarten
Sprache: Englisch

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On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day-chosen completely at random-turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing.

That Sunday between Christmas and New Year's turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling.

One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as "ordinary" when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.
On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day-chosen completely at random-turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing.

That Sunday between Christmas and New Year's turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling.

One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as "ordinary" when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780399166662
ISBN-10: 0399166661
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Weingarten, Gene
Hersteller: BLUE RIDER PR
Maße: 236 x 164 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Gene Weingarten
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.10.2019
Gewicht: 0,591 kg
Artikel-ID: 121922247
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780399166662
ISBN-10: 0399166661
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Weingarten, Gene
Hersteller: BLUE RIDER PR
Maße: 236 x 164 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Gene Weingarten
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.10.2019
Gewicht: 0,591 kg
Artikel-ID: 121922247
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