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.
马未都在自己博客里说他碰到出生医院的医生,因为他是马未都,人家当然很待见他,还帮他查了他的具体出生时间。尽管我个人觉得他这样就公布生辰八字不好,但还是觉得他话语里带着点兴奋。 我看这本美国人的童年回忆就在想,丫怎么都记得住。 没准也因为作者是名作家,就有些办...
评分就我个人的见解,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...
评分因为一些奇怪的原因,开始对1950年代美国感兴趣起来,从纽约背回来的折价书“五十年代编年史”翻看了还不过瘾,看到书店里的某作家回忆50年代童年生活的《闪亮的日子》,也买将回来看。结果不得了,这书居然好看的要死。Bill Bryson这人的“贫”,到了一定境界,夸张揶揄讽刺,...
评分游记作家布莱森这次带领读者回溯了时间之河,前往20世纪50年代,他童年时间的美国进行参观。这部书集略带夸张的私人故事和社会背景介绍于一体,可说是一份真实、生动、有趣的社会观察笔记。手不释卷地读下来,最直接的感受是,我的童年(80年代的中国)竟和他的童年有很多相似...
评分就我个人的见解,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...
有趣的童年,有趣到难以置信...或者那个时代就是那样
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
评分又笑又哭,what a journey.
评分英文版太好笑了
评分Bryson的搞笑童年回忆,感觉是他最逗的一本书了。
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