John Hersey fut un écrivain et journaliste américain, reconnu comme l'un des premiers praticiens du "Nouveau Journalisme". Cette approche novatrice fusionne les techniques narratives du roman avec le reportage factuel. Son œuvre se caractérise par un examen approfondi des expériences humaines et des événements sociétaux, abordant souvent des dilemmes moraux et des luttes personnelles intenses. Hersey utilise avec maestria les faits pour tisser des récits percutants et mémorables.
À travers le témoignage de six survivants d'Hiroshima, John Hersey donne à voir les instants qui ont précédés et suivis l'explosion de la première bombe atomique. Paru dans le New Yorker, ce récit magistral connut un énorme retentissement aux États-Unis. C'est notamment grâce au reportage de Hersey que les Américains prirent conscience de l'ampleur de la tragédie que subirent les Japonais.
McGuire, The Algiers Motel Incident is a powerful indictment of racism and the US justice system.
John Fist is a talented overachiever who has become restless and bored in his second year at Sheldon, an elite New England college. He is losing motivation, increasingly finding it “too far to walk” to his philosophy class across campus. So when the devil in sophomore’s clothing (a fellow student named Chum Breed) offers him all the most intense experiences of the modern world in exchange for a twenty-six-week lease on his soul, Fist eagerly signs up. The anticipated adventures, however, turn out not to be quite what he had bargained for. Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey’s Too Far to Walk is a bracing updating of the classic Faust legend, a compelling coming-of-age novel, and a masterful work of mid-century fiction.
Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. From the author of A Bell For Adano and Hiroshima comes this final collections of stories.
Dr. Tom Medlar’s sailboat, the Harmony, is his pride and joy, and the focus of more lavish and meticulous care than he affords to either his career or his marriage. But then one day Tom takes his wife, Audrey, and their friends, Flick and Dottie Hamden, out for a pleasure cruise and into the unexpected path of a hurricane. As the deadly storm rages around them, the fault lines in the friendships and marriages begin to crack, and John Hersey’s riveting adventure story rapidly becomes something deeper and more unsettling. Widely praised on its initial publication in 1967, Under the Eye of the Storm remains a masterpiece of psychological fiction from one of the most accomplished authors of the twentieth century.
Relates true stories of modern man's courage and determination in the face of great odds, from an old woman's escape from death by drowning during a flood to the struggles of the Hiroshima survivors
Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down.
