Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, 2010
A champion runner, a wartime bomber crash, and a fight to survive the Pacific—and the cruelty that follows.
Laura Hillenbrand
Laura Hillenbrand writes about people and animals the world has written off, and she stays close to them through long odds and bad luck. Unbroken follows a champion runner through a wartime crash and the Pacific, while Seabiscuit is about a discarded racehorse, a damaged jockey and the salesman who bet on both. Start with Seabiscuit if you want the warmer, more crowded story; start with Unbroken if you want the harder one.
Feels like hope, ambition and awe.
Start with Unbroken.
Hillenbrand conducted dozens of interviews with Louis Zamperini and wrote much of the book while housebound with chronic fatigue syndrome.
What it feels like to decide the universe is looking out for you.
As he watched this beautiful, still world, Louie played with a thought that had come to him before. He had thought it as he had watched hunting seabirds, marveling at their ability to adjust their dives to compensate for the refraction of light in water. He had thought it as he had considered the pleasing geometry of the sharks, their gradation of color, their slide through the sea. He even recalled the thought coming to him in his youth, when he had lain on the roof of the cabin at the Cahuilla Indian Reservation, looking up from Zane Grey to watch night settling over the earth. Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Books by Laura Hillenbrand
Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand, 2001
A true Depression-era story about a discarded racehorse, a damaged jockey and the salesman who bet on both.
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