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。
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.
上周见到一个淳朴姑娘 那天刚好下雪 因为她现在在南半球工作 朋友对她说:你真幸运 大概以为她们那儿现在是夏天所以说这话 她倒是一副见怪不怪的表情说:是吗?我不觉得 我来自美国 朋友就问:美国哪里? 她就说了个地方 我的第一反应是本书作者 虽然那时看过这本书已...
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brilliant childhood transgressional stories here and there
评分我邪恶的以为SEX DISTRACTION那段会最好看,结果居然是NUCLEAR WEAPON和ANTI-COMMUNIST最好看
评分会笑出声的那种欢快无比的书
评分my child hood, 怀旧情绪很严证,物是人非,
评分my child hood, 怀旧情绪很严证,物是人非,
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