The Plague Year

America in the Time of Covid

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' <i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br><b>'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' <i>The Observer</i></b><br><b><br>Just as Lawrence Wright's <i>The Looming Tower </i>became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so <i>The Plague Year</i> will become the defining account of the second.</b><br><br>The story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality already some ten times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War.<br><br>This is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of America's great strengths - its scientific knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community - were brought low, not by a terrifying new illness alone, but by political incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which there has been no precedent.<br><br>With insight, sympathy, clarity and rage, <i>The Plague Year </i>allows the reader to see the unfolding of this great tragedy, talking with individuals on the front line, bringing together many moving and surprising stories and painting a devastating picture of a country literally and fatally misled.<br><br><b>'Maddening and sobering - as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we've yet seen' <i>Kirkus</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780141998138

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

211 x 132 x 2 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd