![]() ![]() Movie rights to the novel have been bought by Barry Levinson/SpringCreek Productions/Warner Brothers. ![]() Doctrow, James Dalessandro weaves unforgettable characters and actual events into a compelling epic. Dalessandro talks with NPR's Cheryl Corley about using fiction to set the historical record straight. With the appeal and texture of The Alienist, Carter Beats the Devil, and the novels of E. The novel, already optioned to filmmaker Barry Levinson, hits shelves on the 98th anniversary of San Francisco's near demise. One is Enrico Caruso, the great tenor, who Dalessandro says really did sing (as legend has long held) from a hotel window as he surveyed the carnage. ![]() His heroine, a young investigative reporter at the center of the chaos and scandal, is fictional. They declared that fewer than 500 people had died, a figure that is now believed to be less than 10 percent of the actual toll.Īuthor and screenwriter James Dalessandro tells the epic story in a new novel, 1906. ![]() And members of the security force also joined in the looting.Īfter the smoke cleared, politicians who had been the target of a massive corruption investigation before the disaster were left in power - and painted a false picture for the world. Federal troops given license to shoot and kill the thieves fired on many people who were simply trying to save their own property. Looters were out in full force, picking damaged businesses clean. The quake and ensuing fire left a city known as the "Paris of the West" in ruins. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the great natural disasters in American history. ![]()
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