圖書標籤: 傳記 英文原版 BillBryson Bill.Bryson 英文 美國 外國文學 迴憶錄
发表于2024-12-23
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
比爾·布萊森,世界知名作傢,1951年齣生於美國艾奧瓦州,曾任職於倫敦《泰晤士報》與《獨立報》,同時也為《紐約時報》、《國傢地理雜誌》等撰文。作品主要包括旅遊類隨筆、幽默獨特的科普作品——比如《萬物簡史》、《母語》等等,橫跨多種領域,滿腹淵博學識,下筆則一掃學院窠臼。綜觀他的作品,詼諧嘲謔的風格堪稱一絕,整體上舉重若輕,令普通讀者感同身受。他的每部作品均高踞美國、英國、加拿大暢銷排行榜前列,亦深得評論界推崇,嚮來被奉為雅俗共賞的典範。
又笑又哭,what a journey.
評分有趣的童年,有趣到難以置信...或者那個時代就是那樣
評分brilliant childhood transgressional stories here and there
評分brilliant childhood transgressional stories here and there
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024