Sudden Sea The Great Hurricane of 1938

by Scotti, R. A.

• ISBN13: 9780316832113
• ISBN10: 0316832111
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-24
• Publisher: Back Bay Books

Summary

This spellbinding narrative, focusing on the extraordinary human drama that unfolded as an unlikely alignment of meteorological conditions conspired to bring a deadly tropical cyclone to the Northeast in the summer of 1938, summons back the most ferocious storm ever to hit the East Coast. It was a natural disaster so intense that it indelibly marked not only the lives of families across seven states but also the land itself, requiring the entire coastline map of New England to be redrawn.

Author Biography

R. A. Scotti, a former journalist for the Providence Journal-Bulletin and Newark Star-Ledger, is the author of five novels. A native Rhode Islander, Scotti grew up hearing stories of 1938, including one of an aunt who returned from work at the phone company in a rowboat and another about her grandmother's best friend, who stepped out onto the porch of her house and was never seen again. She summers at Narragansett Pier, Weekapaug, and Jamestown and lives the rest of the year in New York City

Table of Contents

Prologue: Gone with the Wind	3	(90)
1 A Perfect Day	7	(18)
2 The Way It Was	25	(8)
3 A Shift in the Wind	33	(4)
4 Hurricane Watch	37	(14)
5 At Sea	51	(10)
6 All Aboard	61	(10)
7 A Bright Young Man	71	(12)
8 Upside Down, Inside Out	83	(4)
9 Battening the Hatches	87	(6)
10 A One-Hundred-Year Storm	93	(6)
11 How Do You Lose a Hurricane?	99	(66)
12 The Long Island Express	165
13 Crossing the Sound	119	(6)
14 The Atlantic Ocean Bound Out of Bed	125	(12)
15 The Dangerous Right Semicircle	137	(24)
16 Providence	161	(10)
17 The Tempest	171	(18)
18 Cast Adrift	189	(14)
19 All Quiet	203	(6)
20 The Reckoning	209	(16)
21 The Last of the Old New England Summers	225	(10)
Afterword	235	(4)
Appendix: A Nickel for Your Story	239	(6)
Author's Acknowledgments	245	(2)
Sources and Chapter Notes	247	(12)
Selected Bibliography	259	(8)
Index	267