基本信息出版社：Hyperion
页码：208 页
出版日期：2003年05月
ISBN：0786888512
International Standard Book Number：0786888512
条形码：9780786888511
EAN：9780786888511
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 Firehouse is a book that will move readers as few others have in our time. Through the kind of intimate portraits that are Halberstam's trademark, we watch a typical day in a firehouse unfold -- the men called to duty, while their families wait anxiously for news of them. In addition, we come to understand the culture of the firehouse itself; why gifted men do this and why in so many instances they are eager to follow in their father's footsteps and serve in so dangerous a profession -- why, more than anything else, it is not just a job, but a calling as well. This is journalism-as-history at its best, the story of what happens when one small institution gets caught in an apocalyptic day.

"In the firehouse, the men not only live and eat with each other, they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair one another's houses, and, most important, share terrifying risks; their loyalties to each other must, by the demands of the dangers they face, be instinctive and absolute."
作者简介 At the age of 28, David Halberstam was reassigned from Leopoldville, The Congo, where he was a war correspondent for the New York Times, to Vietnam. His pessimistic dispatches from Saigon won him the Pulitzer Prize at the age of 30. In 1972, he published the definitive book on the roots of the Vietnam War, The Best and the Brightest. It and his 12 subsequent books have all been national bestsellers. He and his family live three and a half blocks from the firehouse featured in the book, Engine 40, Ladder 35.
媒体推荐 "Firehouse leaves one feeling . . . personally touched . . . and grateful that there are ordinary people who possess such uncommon courage." -- Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle

"A clear-eyed but affecting group portrait." -- Malcolm Jones, Newsweek

"A poignant remembrance . . . Halberstam's achievement is remembering these men not just for how they died . . . for how they lived." -- Joe Heim, People

"Richly detailed . . . in structure and tone, it resembles John Hersey's 1946 classic Hiroshima." -- Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today