ONE SUMMER: AMERICA 1927
Book ID/图书代码： 12844013B62592
English Summary/英文概要： ONE SUMMER: America 1927 focuses on the summer of 1927 and how it made its mark on history.
That summer, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest of the time), a semi-crazed sculptor with a mad plan to carve four giant heads into an inaccessible mountain called Rushmore, a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and a youthful aviator named Charles Lindbergh who started the summer wholly unknown and finished it as the most famous man on earth. (So famous that Minnesota considered renaming itself after him.). It was the summer that saw the birth of talking pictures, the invention of television, the peak of Al Capone’s reign of terror, the horrifying bombing of a school in Michigan by a madman, the ill-conceived decision that led to the Great Depression, the thrillingly improbable return to greatness of a wheezing, over-the-hill baseball player named Babe Ruth, and an almost impossible amount more.
In this hugely entertaining book, Bill Bryson spins a story of brawling adventure, reckless optimism and delirious energy, with an unforgettable cast of vivid and eccentric personalities.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书从美国1927年一个夏天发生的事件切入，讲述了整个1920年代的繁荣、荒诞与疯狂。作者比尔·布莱森带我们穿越到大萧条爆发的前夜，沉浸式当年真实的美国社会。在这些浮华和疯狂的背后，大萧条正逐渐蔓延到美国社会的各个角落……(DB)
Awards/获奖情况："Bill Bryson is a true master of popular narrative. Over the course of his career, he has bestowed a beautiful clarity on even the most recondite of subjects...Has history ever been so enjoyable?" (Craig Brown Mail on Sunday)
"A fascinating snapshot of a season during which America, for better or worse, ushered in the modern world." (Sunday Times)
"A gifted raconteur...The book is filled with eccentric, flamboyant characters and memorable stories...highly amusing." (Guardian)
"A great new form of literature: biography of a few months in one country." (Matt Ridley The Times (Books of the Year))
"Few writers of nonfiction, and,let’s be honest,few enough writers of novels, can crack the narrative whip like Bryson. One Summer fairly whirls along...full of exhilarating, fact-filled fun...surely the most sublime distraction published this year." (Observer)
About the Author/作者介绍： 比尔·布莱森（Bill Bryson），英国著名非虚构作家，尤其擅长人文历史、科普、游记类的写作。代表作有《万物简史》《人体简史》等。荣获詹姆斯·乔伊斯奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊等多个重大文学奖项。
曾任英国杜伦大学校长，英国皇家学会荣誉院士。早年曾供职于泰晤士报、独立报，同时也为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》等撰文。
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. Settled in England for many years, he moved to America with his wife and four children for a few years ,but has since returned to live in the UK. His bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent, Notes From a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods and Down Under. His acclaimed work of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling non-fiction book of the decade in the UK.
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