Close to Shore

{{Short description|2001 book by Michael Capuzzo}}

{{notability|Book|date=September 2023}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence

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| image = CloseToShoreCover.jpg

| caption = First edition cover

| author = Michael Capuzzo

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| subject = Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916
History of New Jersey

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| publisher = Broadway Books

| release_date = 2001

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| media_type = Hardback
Paperback

| pages = 317

| isbn = 0-7679-0413-3

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| dewey= 597.3/1566 21

| congress= QL638.93 .C36 2001

| oclc= 46565150

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Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence is a non-fiction book by journalist Michael Capuzzo about the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. The book was published in 2001 by Broadway Books.

According to a reviewer writing for the New Yorker, it is an "adventure classic".[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/07/09/close-to-shore Close to Shore] The factual content and backgrounds were based on Richard Fernicola's In Search of the Jersey Man-Eater (1987).{{cite journal |last=Hepfer |first=W. |year=2001 |title=Rev. of Close to shore: A true story of terror in an age of innocence / Twelve days of terror: A definitive investigation of the 1916 new jersey shark attacks |journal=Library Journal |volume=126 |issue=10 |page=183}}

An adapted version, Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916, was published in 2003, aimed at a middle-school audience, with fewer biographical background of the victims.{{cite journal |last1=Bush |first1=Elizabeth |title=Rev. of Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 |journal=Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books |volume=56 |issue=10 |page=394 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/223682588 |id={{ProQuest|223682588}} |language=en}} There are photos and news clippings not in the original.{{cite journal |last=Zvirin |first=S. |year=2003 |title=Rev. of Close to shore: The terrifying shark attacks of 1916 |journal=The Booklist |volume=99 |issue=18 |page=1654}} Capuzzo's description of the shark's behaviour verges on being anthropomorphic.{{cite journal|last=Spencer |first=P. |year=2003 |title=Rev. of Close to shore: The terrifying shark attacks of 1916 |journal=School Library Journal |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=75–176}}