STORM

by George H. Stewart ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 20, 1941

Here, with the beginnings, growth, maturity and death of a storm, is an unusual story, well worth the slight effort of weathering a somewhat slow, technical, deliberate beginning. It is well handled, with all elements of drama, tragedy, highlights, characters, the science of weather, and the farflung interrelation of cause and effect impressively described. A panorama of what a ""revolution in the government of the air"" means on all fronts, human, animal, inanimate.. The storm (named Maria by a Junior Meteorologist), and the many characters, events and situations which it influences in its course forms as intricate pattern of threads, all clearly traced and incisively portrayed. From the first notice of Maria in the San Francisco weather bureau to the radiations of her sphere, her importance to farms, power and light, telephone, roads and railroads, traffic, planes and flying, flood control, to her full onslaught from the Pacific and the impact on the Coast and the country at large, this is a dramatic and original pictures full pattern of the sweep and theater of twelve days of a storm. Despite the complex, meteorological details, there is an equal balance of human interest in the lives affected. A book, which with personal enthusiasm, should sell well.

Pub Date: Nov. 20, 1941

ISBN: 1890771740

Page Count: -

Publisher: Random House

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1941

Categories: FICTION