Laurence Gonzales, Author . Norton $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-05276-3
When confronted with a life-threatening situation, 90% of people freeze or panic, says Gonzales in this exploration of what makes the remaining 10% stay cool, focused and alive. Gonzales (The Hero's Apprentice; The Still Point), who has covered...
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Laurence Gonzales, Knopf, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-27260-7
When anthropologist Jenny Lowe brings Lucy, the teenage daughter of a murdered colleague, back home with her to Chicago from the Congo in Gonzales's glib biological thriller, Jenny puts the girl's behavioral quirks down to unfamiliarity with the...
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Laurence Gonzales, Author Simon & Schuster $30 (272p) ISBN 978-0-671-74278-2
Gonzales ( The Still Point ) conveys the mystique of piloting an aircraft; when he writes of the freedom and joys the skies afford he approaches the lyricism of Saint-Exupery. But in his portraits of others similarly obsessed with flying and with...
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Laurence Gonzales. Norton, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-08318-7
Gonzales (Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why), a National Magazine Award–winning journalist, tackles a difficult narrative: the near-deadly encounter and the life that must be lived afterward. The people whose stories he presents have...
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Laurence Gonzales. Univ. of Arkansas, $24.95 trade paper (309 pages) ISBN 978-1-55728-999-5
National Magazine Award finalist Gonzales (Deep Survival) has always been searching for a sense of "authenticity," harboring a desire to be "annealed in the fires [of experience]" that marked his adored father's life. This collection represents "[his
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Laurence Gonzalez. Norton, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-393-24002-3
Journalist Gonzalez (Deep Survival) finds grace amid tragedy in his searing study of the fiery 1989 crash of United Airlines Flight 232: 184 of the 296 passengers survived, and the drama unfolded over 44 nerve-wracking minutes while the pilots...
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Laurence Gonzales. Univ. of Arkansas, $22.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-68226-151-4
Gonzales (Flight 232), a former National Geographic feature writer, proves himself a chronicler par excellence of nature—including of the human variety—in this excellent essay collection. He explores both in “Mount Washington,” which begins as a...
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