A World Turned Over: A Killer Tornado and the Lives It Changed Forever
A Biography, Nonfiction, History book. This is probably my least favorite tornado book. It was so full of florid prose that it was almost...
""In the dream I see the yellowing Mississippi sky...I feel the edges of the wind, quick and rough a and nearer than l ever believed it could be, cutting an undertow in the now unbreathable air, It is close now, stealing by degrees across the pasture that spreads like a dark, lake behind the store, its black belly bulging straight out as it begins to feed on scrub pine, then on the girded steel of the supermarket, on /be cars once parked in even rows, on living tissue...
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- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9780684856346 / 0
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Auden once described America as a landmass whose climate--no matter where one went in the country--was profoundly unsuitable for human habitation. Katrina, and, more recently, the twisters in Tuscaloosa and Joplin would only have reinforced the theory that had arisen from his experiences here. A less well-known event, which came to... This is probably my least favorite tornado book. It was so full of florid prose that it was almost hard to find the tornado. The author used 85 words where she could have used 2. The book itself started with a 4 page discussion of the battlefield at Vicksburg. Um...this book was about the Candlestick tornado and had NOTHING to do with... I learned from this book that it's possible to take a gripping story about a tornado and life & death situations & make it kind of boring. The author spends way too much time reminiscing about her childhood rather than actually providing a coherent narrative of the tornado event.
