书名：Notes From A Big Country
作者：Bill Bryson
出版社名称：Black Swan
出版时间：2016
语种：英语
ISBN：9781784161842
商品尺寸：12.7 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：384（以实物为准）

比尔·布赖森有一种罕见的本领，无论他走到哪里，他都能超越自己的深度——甚至在他的出生地。在英国生活了近二十年后，这位世界上zui受欢迎的旅行作家与布莱森夫人、小吉米等人加强了联系，回到他年轻时离开的国家生活。

当然，布赖森也想念布莱尔蒂的一些东西，但任何失落的感觉都被重新发现童年时代被遗忘的珍宝的喜悦抵消了：新英格兰秋天的荣耀；自己穿短裤的令人愉快的滑稽景象；在汽车旅馆的房间里，你通常会在夜里被一声刺耳的尖叫声惊醒，还会听到一个女人恳求的声音：“放下枪，维尼，你说什么我就做什么。”

无论是讨论早餐披萨奇怪的吸引力，还是美国电视令人瞠目结舌的可怕，比尔·布赖森都将他独特的令人困惑的智慧运用到zui奇怪的现象——美国人的生活方式上。

Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth.

Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood: the glories of a New England autumn; the pleasingly comical sight of oneself in shorts; and motel rooms where you can generally count on being awakened in the night by a piercing shriek and the sound of a female voice pleading, 'Put the gun down, Vinnie, I'll do anything you say.'

Whether discussing the strange appeal of breakfast pizza or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life.

比尔·布莱森，世界知名的非虚构作家，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》等刊物撰文。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，皆为非学院派的幽默之作。他的作品诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝、整体上举重若轻，能让普通读者产生很强的认同感，不失为雅俗共赏的典范，深受读者喜爱，也获得很高的评价，每部作品均高踞美、英、加畅销排行榜前茅。

比尔·布莱森之所以能在二十世纪的旅游文学中占据一席之地，并成为目前世界公认的zui有趣的旅游文学作家，是因为他擅长用不同的眼光来看待他所游历的世界，他真切地捕捉到了一个旅人的内心感受。自然地理、生活情趣、社会时态，布莱森信手拈来无不奇趣，使普通读者产生很强的认同感。他的尖刻加上他的博学，让他的文字充满了智慧、机敏和幽默。作为在英国生活了二十多年的美国人，他的作品又兼具了开朗风趣、绝不怕粗俗的美式调侃和冷峻犀利、一针见血的英式嘲讽。

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island was voted the book that best represents Britain. 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 its decade in the UK. His new book The Body- A Guide for Occupants is an extraordinary exploration of the human body which will have you marvelling at the form you occupy. Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005-2011. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.

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