Jurassic Park Summary
Michael Crichton

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Jurassic Park Summary

As the book opens, a previously undocumented breed of lizard is attacking children in Costa Rica. When an American girl named Tina Bowman is attacked, she draws a sketch of the lizard. The sketch leads Dr. Marty Guitierrez to find the carcass of a lizard he cannot identify and sends it to experts in New York to be analyzed. A technician named Alice Levin believes the carcass to be that of...

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Encyclopedia Articles (1)

Jurassic Park

1,079 words, approx. 4 pages

Jurassic Park Jurassic Park is the title of Michael Crichton's best-selling novel (1990) and its popular film adaptation by Steven Spielberg (1993). In the story Jurassic Park is the name of th... Read more

Michael Crichton Biographies (3)

John Michael Crichton

3,199 words, approx. 11 pages

Michael Crichton (born 1942) is best known as a novelist of popular fiction whose stories explore the confrontation between traditional social and moral values and the demands of the new technological... Read more

(John) Michael Crichton

7,265 words, approx. 25 pages

Michael Crichton has been called a "megastar" who has made a resounding impression on the literary world. Critics applaud him as a writer who is entertaining to read and who can "elaborate a gripping ... Read more

Michael Crichton

2,894 words, approx. 10 pages

Michael Crichton has had a number of successful careers--physician, teacher, film director, screenwriter--but he is perhaps best known for pioneering the "techno-thriller" with novels such as The Andr... Read more

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Critical Review by Gary Jennings

956 words, approx. 4 pages

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Jurassic Park

819 words, approx. 3 pages

Michael Crichton's bestseller Jurassic Park is a wonderfully written story full of drama and suspense with a scientific background. John Hammond, the imaginative and overzealous dreamer filled with ... Read more

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