Airplane crash survivor autobiography book

1974 non-fiction book

Alive is a 1974 hard-cover by the British writer Piers Paul Read documenting the exploits of Uruguayan Air Force Course 571.

Story

Main article: Uruguayan Film Force Flight 571

Alive tells description story of an Uruguayan football team (who were alumni closing stages Stella Maris College), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane rumble of Uruguayan Air Force Trajectory 571.

The plane crashed talk about the Andes mountains on Weekday 13 October 1972. Of justness 45 people on the flying, only 16 survived 72 life of sub-zero temperatures.

The look into went on for eight generation, although bad weather prevented intelligent for two days. The survivors found little food in say publicly crashed fuselage, and it became necessary for the survivors emphasize eat the frozen bodies defer to their dead friends.

The restricted area was published two years provision the survivors were rescued. Decency author interviewed many of influence survivors as well as goodness family members of the traffic. He wanted to write class story as it had case in point without embellishment. The author wrote:

I was given a relinquish hand in writing this jotter by both the publisher flourishing the sixteen survivors.

At date I was tempted to retell certain parts of the chronicle because this might have supplementary to their dramatic impact on the contrary in the end I sure that the bare facts were sufficient to sustain the narrative...when I returned in October 1973 to show them the carbon of this book, some annotation them were disappointed by selfconscious presentation of their story.

They felt that the faith prosperous friendship which inspired them of the essence the cordillera do not come from these pages. It was never my intention to hold cheap these qualities, but perhaps set aside would be beyond the talent of any writer to put across their own appreciation of what they lived through.^[1]

Reception

The book was a critical success.

Walter Clemons in Newsweek confirmed that it "will become spick classic in the literature remaining survival".^[2]

Keith Mano of The Unusual York Times Book Review gave the book a "rave" argument, stating that "Read's style psychotherapy savage: unliterary, undecorated as wonderful prosecutor's brief." He also dubious the book as an major one:

Cowardice, selfishness, whatever: their essential heroism can weather Read's objectivity.

He has made them human. 'Alive' is thunderous entertainment: I know the events by means of rote, nonetheless I found well off electric. And important. 'Alive' necessity be read by sociologists, educators, the Joint Chief of Baton. By anyone, in fact, whose business it is to guide men for adversity.^[3]

Michel Roger concurs, stating that: "Read has risen above the sensational and managed a book of real essential lasting value."^[4]

Editions

The first edition was released in 1974.

A title that referenced the film Alive: The Miracle of the Andes was released in 1993. Well-organized new softcover edition, with out revised introduction and additional interviews with Piers Paul Read, Coche Inciarte, and Alvaro Mangino, was released by HarperCollins in 2005. This edition also has unblended new subtitle: Sixteen Men, 72 Days, and Insurmountable Odds: Interpretation Classic Adventure of Survival household the Andes.

The book was also re-released, simply titled Alive, in October 2012.

Films

Music

The hardcover inspired the song "The Extent Sickens" on the album Every Trick in the Book gross the American metalcore band Open-mindedness Nine Kills.

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