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Author: Andrea Pitzer
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Imprint: Little Brown and Company
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781478991113
ISBN 10: 1478991119
Publication Date: 19 September 2017
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Andrea Pitzer's searing One Long Night proceeds like an epic poem charged with the horror of concentration camps on six continents. It is a tale full of sound and fury, unfortunately signifying plenty. 'Old camps reopen, new ones are born, ' Pitzer tells us in her clean prose that is cogent, passionate, profound, and profoundly disturbing. -- Peter Davis, author of Girl of My Dreams A clear-eyed and powerful exposure of the horrors of concentration camps. -- Annie Jacobsen, Pulitzer Prize finalist Engrossing history.... Pitzer excels at focusing this sprawling history on the personal level. -- Publishers Weekly A potent, powerful history of cruelty and dehumanization. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) With a keen, discerning eye, Pitzer...rigorously blends deep archival research, eyewitness accounts, and memoirs with on-site reporting from six continents, and tracks how mass civilian detention has evolved over time. -- National Book Review A disturbing yet important work on a universal calamity of the modern era...consistently fascinating. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune A fearless and elegant tale of human cruelty but also of human courage. -- Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
"A disturbing yet important work on a universal calamity of the modern era...consistently fascinating. -- ""Minneapolis Star Tribune"" With a keen, discerning eye, Pitzer...rigorously blends deep archival research, eyewitness accounts, and memoirs with on-site reporting from six continents, and tracks how mass civilian detention has evolved over time. -- ""National Book Review"" A potent, powerful history of cruelty and dehumanization. -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" Andrea Pitzer's searing One Long Night proceeds like an epic poem charged with the horror of concentration camps on six continents. It is a tale full of sound and fury, unfortunately signifying plenty. 'Old camps reopen, new ones are born, ' Pitzer tells us in her clean prose that is cogent, passionate, profound, and profoundly disturbing. -- ""Peter Davis, author of Girl of My Dreams"" A fearless and elegant tale of human cruelty but also of human courage. -- ""Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author"" Engrossing history.... Pitzer excels at focusing this sprawling history on the personal level. -- ""Publishers Weekly"" A clear-eyed and powerful exposure of the horrors of concentration camps. -- ""Annie Jacobsen, Pulitzer Prize finalist"""
Author Information
Andrea Pitzer is the author of The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. Her writing has appeared in USA Today, Slate, Lapham's Quarterly, and McSweeney's, among other publications. In 2009, she founded Nieman Storyboard, the narrative nonfiction site of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. She lives in Falls Church, Virginia.
