F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Viloent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century

Focuses on the Limestone County, Alabama, lives altered and lost in April 1974, when more than one hundred tornadoes--six of them of the most powerful "F5" category of storms--swept across thirteen states, killing and wounding hundreds of people and causing billions of dollars worth of damage. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Mark Levine is an award-winning magazine writer who has contributed to The New Yorker, Outside, and Men's Journal among others and whose work has been included in The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Sports Writing, and The Best American Poetry. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine and he teaches poetry at the Iowa Writers Workshop. Author of three books of poetry, he lives in Brooklyn and Iowa.