1906: A Novel, by James Dalessandro
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1906: A Novel, by James Dalessandro
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Set during the great San Francisco earthquake and fire, this pause-resisting historical novel reveals recently uncovered facts that forever change our understanding of what really happened. Narrated by a feisty young reporter, Annalisa Passarelli, the novel paints a vivid picture of the Post-Victorian city, from the mansions of Nob Hill to the underbelly of the Barbary Coast, to the arrival of tenor Enrico Caruso and the Metropolitan Opera. Central to the story is the ongoing battle - fought even as the city burns - that pits incompetent and unscrupulous politicians against a coalition of honest police officers, newspaper editors, citizens, and a lone federal prosecutor. James Dalessandro weaves unforgettable characters and actual events into a compelling epic.
1906: A Novel, by James Dalessandro- Amazon Sales Rank: #24297 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-09-01
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 711 minutes
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127 of 130 people found the following review helpful. About Time By A Customer I am probably in a small minority of people who knew much of this story before I read it. I am 71 years old and my mother, her parents and many of their friends survived the horrible 1906 earthquake and fires. Growing up, I heard countless stories about what happened. Everyone who survived was angry that the death toll was so low, 500 people, when it was many times that number. My grandmother collected newspaper articles that disputed the death toll and many other lies that city officials told. My grandparents told of people being driven out of their homes at bayonet point when the fire was still a long way away and told they could take nothing of their possessions with them. Every survivor told tales of the military and national guard breaking into bars and liquor stores, then shooting anyone they thought might be looting. What surprised and delighted me about this book was not just the fact that the writer corrected the falsehoods, but that he took the time to tell us what life was like in one of the most beautiful and colorful cities America has ever seen. This was like a journey through my family history. He told how everyone, even the poorest, dressed well whenever they were in public. I could hear the cable cars clanging up and down the hills, the horses hooves clomping on the streets, see into the alleys of Chinatown where they were still selling poor little girls like cattle. I loved his descriptions of the mansions on Nob Hill and the dregs of the Barbary Coast, and my grandmother, were she still alive, would have relished the Caruso sections, as she had tickets to attend one of the perfromances, one that she saved up for for weeks but missed because the opera house was burned down. I think anyone would love this book, whether or not they have ever been to San Francisco. I have asked myself for many years why somone has not told this story. I am from the generation that was rasied on books, not television. This is one I am going to treasure. I heard the author speak and saw a documentary film he presented at a library last week. He is as passionate and knowledgeable about the subject in person. The images of the city and the disaster brought back a flood of emotions, as did the book. I just thought it was all wonderful.
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful. SENSATIONAL By A Customer I live in the midwest and travel to San Francisco on business periodically, where I discovered James Dalessandro's first novel, Bohemian Heart several years ago. It was one of the most intelligent, original, page-turning mysteries I had ever read. I bought a copy of 1906 on Union Square last week and read it on the airplane home, and was the last one off the airplane because I did not want to close the book. He outdid himself this time, something I did not expect. This is much more than a story about the great San Francisco earthquake and fire, though the long section on the earthquake, the chaos and heroism and human disaster is riveting. This is a poem to the city of San Francisco that was wiped off the earth: it is a romance, a cry of outrage, a political tome, a journey through what must have been the most fascinating and complex city in America at the turn of the century. What I loved about both of his novels was how lean and taut they are, how he never overwrites and never seems to waste words, and yet 1906 is filled with colorful details, complex plots and subplots, and some of the most fascinating and orginal characters in fiction. I laughed out loud, re-read several chapters as soon as I was done with them, and must have cried three or four times while reading the book, especially at the end. My best friend is now reading it and we are already arguing over who our favorite character is, what the best lines are, and what is the most shocking revelations about the disaster. I just hope Mr. Dalessandro does not wait ten years to write another San Francisco story. It is the best book I have read in a very long time.
71 of 80 people found the following review helpful. Read it now, then wait for the film version By Douglas A. Greenberg This is an absorbing novel that is commendable in some important respects, especially the fact that Dalessandro did some homework regarding many of the particulars of the actual story surrounding the 1906 quake and its aftermath. Overall, however, it's basically a made-for-Hollywood treatment of the earthquake that exudes sensationalism and is uneven in its historical accuracy.Dalessandro includes much of the material unearthed (so to speak) by Gladys Hansen and other researchers regarding what actually happened on April 18, 1906. He reveals the actual casualty levels (several thousand deaths, at least), makes abundantly clear the stupidity of General Frederick Funston's overuse of dynamite as a means for creating a fire break, and spotlights the overt corruption that helped create the institutional context for a disaster that turned out much worse than it might have had the city been better prepared.The author is at his best when he slips into his narrative this or that little historical anecdote or snippet about "old San Francisco." It's with regard to the minutiae of the pre-earthquake city, its politics and its cultural distinctiveness that the book clearly shows considerable research and preparation.However, it's pretty clear that geology is not Dalessandro's forte, and the book includes a number of painful inaccuracies that will cause anyone familiar with the science of seismology to wince. He conveys his geological information and insight through the inclusion of a character named Jeremy Darling, an assistant professor of geology at UC Berkeley. On the train heading west, Darling explains to buxon Kansas runaway Kaitlin Staley that seismology studies "the subterranean movements of the earth's giant plates." Problem is, no one in that field would have explained earthquakes in terms of "plates" in 1906, as plate tectonic theory was not yet even a twinkle in any geologist's eye.Later in the book, Professor Darling notices ominious precursors to a possible earthquake in the form of apparent "creep" along the San Andreas Fault. He explains to protagonist and narrator Annalisa Passareli that such highly visible creep indicates that something "big" is about to happen, perhaps to the north (i.e., in San Francisco). However, in reality, fault creep has no particular predictive value and, in fact, geologists are generally more concerned about "locked" sections of a fault where no apparent movement at all is occurring.Finally, Dalessandro includes a strange passage in which a section of railroad being built up the Peninsula through the San Mateo County salt marshes is seen to have been twisted in an s-shape, indicating yet more dramatically the fault movement that foreshadows a possible huge break. However, if there were such twisting of railroad tracks, it would have to occur directly across the fault itself, in response to the strike-slip movement of the plates. The San Mateo marshes lie well to the east of the San Andreas Fault and west of the Hayward Fault, so what possible geological mechanism would cause them to twist into an s-shape?I suppose only geological nitpickers will care about these kinds of inaccuracies, but it reveals a level of inattention to detail in the preparation of the book that I find annoying.As for the presentation, Dalessandro includes some admirably colorful descriptive language and he keeps the story moving along in lively fashion, but he creates confusion by switching, often clumsily, back and forth between third person and first person narrative (the "I" being Annalise Passarelli). At the end of the book he explains that this was, apparently, the style used by the famous reporter Nellie Bly, This merely shows, however, that the mistakes of one writer can all too easily become an excuse for the mistakes of another.As for the story itself, well, there are gunfights and fist fights and fallen women and Shanghai-ers and Enrico Caruso, and lots of descriptions of broken buildings, injured people, and the ever-spreading Great Fire. And the book's good guys are extremely good and the bad guys are REALLY bad. Hey, the hero and the heroine fall in love and get married! Indeed, there is no lack of action, and let's face it, the 1906 quake makes a terrific vehicle for a story.If this is the kind of story you enjoy, this book is for you. Overall, I confess that despite its flaws I enjoyed it. It'll make a terrific movie (made for TV, probably), and I definitely won't miss it.
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