Hiroshima by John Hersey

Hiroshima

John Hersey

208 pages first pub 1946 (editions)

nonfiction classics history emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

Hiroshima is the story of six people--a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest--who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose,...

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Moods

informative 80%
sad 74%
dark 60%
emotional 59%
reflective 53%
challenging 36%
tense 21%
inspiring 6%
hopeful 2%

Pace

medium 50%
fast 29%
slow 19%

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3.98

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