The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

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比尔·布莱森,世界知名作家,1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州,曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》,同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等撰文。作品主要包括旅游类随笔、幽默独特的科普作品——比如《万物简史》、《母语》等等,横跨多种领域,满腹渊博学识,下笔则一扫学院窠臼。综观他的作品,诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝,整体上举重若轻,令普通读者感同身受。他的每部作品均高踞美国、英国、加拿大畅销排行榜前列,亦深得评论界推崇,向来被奉为雅俗共赏的典范。

出版者:Broadway Books
作者:[美] 比尔·布莱森
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页数:270
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出版时间:2007-9
价格:USD 15.99
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780767919371
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From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s

Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons)—in his head—as "The Thunderbolt Kid."

Using this persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality—a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his father, a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises, and OF his mother, whose job as the home furnishing editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home. The many readers of Bill Bryson’s earlier classic, A Walk in the Woods, will greet the reappearance in these pages of the immortal Stephen Katz, seen hijacking literally boxcar loads of beer. He is joined in the Bryson gallery of immortal characters by the demonically clever Willoughby brothers, who apply their scientific skills and can-do attitude to gleefully destructive ends.

Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young.

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与其说比尔·布莱森是一个文笔风趣的作家,毋庸说,他更像一个有着上帝般全景视角的说书人。在《闪亮的日子》,这本关于美国50年代日常生活的回忆录中,他从家庭琐事入手,以自己童年成长为线索,融合了他根据当年媒体的报道所提炼出的时代精神和信息,基本就像周立波的《笑侃...  

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断舍离的思绪近来总在我脑袋里抽风,多抓鱼给了角落里落灰的旧书一条出路。翻出来做最后的告别重读,竟无法释卷,不知不觉占用了我一个无聊的周末。 世界猝不及防的改天换地,美好的岁月总是稍纵即逝,压根儿来不及品味。时尚断绝了传统的生路,伪传统乔装打扮却想欺世盗名分一...  

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断舍离的思绪近来总在我脑袋里抽风,多抓鱼给了角落里落灰的旧书一条出路。翻出来做最后的告别重读,竟无法释卷,不知不觉占用了我一个无聊的周末。 世界猝不及防的改天换地,美好的岁月总是稍纵即逝,压根儿来不及品味。时尚断绝了传统的生路,伪传统乔装打扮却想欺世盗名分一...  

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P14 除了棒球史上的最伟大本垒打和霹雳小子的出生外,1951年美国并没发生什么惊天大事。 P20 “有点烧糊了,”每顿饭母亲都会抱歉地说,递给你一块肉,看上去就像从一场灾难性的家宅大火中抢救出来的某样东西——也许就是一直深受宠爱的小动物。“可我想我已剃掉了那些烧糊了...  

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就我个人的见解,在所有文体当中,回忆录应当是最为难写的一种,这种难不在技术层面,而在于写作的人究竟可以多大程度地接近事实真相,且不必说那些树碑立传妄图不朽者,如何浓墨重彩地美化乃至歪曲,即使怀一颗诚心,也难保许多细节在经历绵长的时间冲刷之后,真的还是那...  

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Bryson的搞笑童年回忆,感觉是他最逗的一本书了。

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有趣的童年,有趣到难以置信...或者那个时代就是那样

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my child hood, 怀旧情绪很严证,物是人非,

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我邪恶的以为SEX DISTRACTION那段会最好看,结果居然是NUCLEAR WEAPON和ANTI-COMMUNIST最好看

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Bryson的搞笑童年回忆,感觉是他最逗的一本书了。

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