Writing style
Descriptive · Direct · Journalistic
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Biography and memoir
- Print length
- 307 pagesDelacorte Press, 2014
Description
Laura Hillenbrand follows Louis Zamperini from a troubled California youth through athletic fame and the extreme tests of World War II. Encouraged by his brother, Zamperini channels his defiance into running, earns the nickname the Torrance Tornado, and competes at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. War ends his athletic career and makes him a bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving over the Pacific with a close-knit crew. After a plane crash, he survives weeks adrift on a raft and then years of brutality in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. The biography connects physical endurance with the less visible struggle to preserve identity, dignity, and hope when every ordinary source of control has been stripped away.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Dark · Earnest · Hopeful · Tense
Structure
Chronological nonfiction
Focus
Character · Plot
Emotional intensity
5 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 3 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307975652, 9780375990625, 9780385742511
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