ISBN号:9780552997867
书名:Notes From a Big Country
作者:Bill Bryson
出版日期:1999-08-31T23:00:00+00:00
英文简介:
Amazon.
com Review
In the world of contemporary travel writing, Bill Bryson, the bestselling author of
Happily, I’m a Stranger Here Myself unleashes a new Bryson, more contemplative and less likely to toss daggers.
After two decades in England, he’s relocated to Hanover, New Hampshire.
In this collection (drawn from dispatches for London’s Night & Day magazine), he’s writing from home, in close proximity to wife and family.
We find a happy marriage between humor and reflection as he assesses life both in New England and in the contemporary United States.
With the telescopic perspective of one who’s stepped out of the American mainstream and come back after 20 years, Bryson aptly holds the mirror up to U.
S.
culture, capturing its absurdities–such as hotlines for dental floss, the cult of the lawsuit, and strange American injuries such as those sustained from pillows and beds.
“In the time it takes you to read this,” he writes, “four of my fellow citizens will somehow manage to be wounded by their bedding.
”
The book also reflects the sweet side of small-town USA, with columns about post-office parties, dining at diners, and Thanksgiving–when the only goal is to “get your stomach into the approximate shape of a beach ball” and be grateful.
And grateful we are that the previously peripatetic Bryson has returned to the U.
S.
, turning his eye to this land–while living at home and near his wife.
Under her benevolent influence, he entertains through thoughtful insights, not sarcastic stabs.
–Melissa Rossi
From Publishers Weekly
Ex-expatriate Bryson, who chronicled one effort at American reentry in his bestselling A Walk in the Woods, collects another: the whimsical columns on America he wrote weekly, while living in New Hampshire in the mid-to-late 1990s, for a British Sunday newspaper.
Although he happily describes himself as dazzled by American ease, friendliness and abundance, Bryson has no trouble finding comic targets, among them fast food, computer efficiency and, ironically, American friendliness and putative convenience.
As he edges into Dave Barry-style hyperbole, Bryson sometimes strains for yuks, but he’s deft when he compares the two cultures, as in their different treatment of Christmas, pointing out how the British “pack all their festive excesses” into that single holiday.
Bryson also nudges into domestic territory with regular references to his own British wife, the resolutely sensible Mrs.
B.
In a few columns, Bryson adopts a sentimental tone, writing about his family and his new hometown of Hanover.
In others, he’s more sober, criticizing anti-immigration activists, environmental depredation and drug laws (though he draws out the humor in these as well).
Not all the columns hit their mark, and they are best read in small groupings, but this collection should sell well enough, although not likely to the heights of A Walk in the Woods.
Agent, Jed Mattes.
Author tour; BDD audio.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
Des Moines, Iowa born writer Bryson’s first success was the travel book “The Lost Continent”.
After living in England for several years, he wanted to go back to the USA to find the perfect little US town of his past, he lovingly called Amalgam.
More travel books followed, in the form of “Neither Here Nor There” (where he travels through Europe), “Notes From A Small Island” (where he travels around the United Kingdom, before returning back with his to the USA to live there for good) and “A Walk In The Woods” (where he walks the Appalachian trail).
After moving back to the States, Bryson started to write a column for “The Mail on Sunday Night and Day” magazine.
This is a collection of these column entries.
Bryson writes about everything from everyday chores, to sueing people, the beach, TV, movies, air conditioners, college, Americana, injury dangers, wasting resources and holiday seasons.
中文简介:
Amazon.com评论
在当代旅行写作的世界中，比尔·布赖森（Bill Bryson）
令人高兴的是，我本人在这里是一个陌生人，释放了一个新的布赖森，更沉思，不太可能扔匕首。
在英格兰呆了二十年后，他搬到了新罕布什尔州的汉诺威。
在这个系列（从伦敦的《夜间和日间》杂志的派遣中绘制）中，他在家里写作，与妻子和家人非常接近。
当他评估新英格兰和当代美国的生活时，我们发现了幽默与反思之间的幸福婚姻。
有了伸缩的观点，他从美国主流中走出来并在20年后回来了，布赖森恰当地将镜子抱在了美国文化上，捕捉了它的荒谬之处，例如牙线牙线的热线，诉讼的邪教，诉讼和奇怪的美国受伤，例如在枕头和床上受到的伤害。
他写道：“在您读这篇文章的时候，我的四名同胞将以某种方式被他们的床上用品受伤。
”
这本书还反映了美国小镇的甜蜜一面，其中包含有关邮局派对，在食客的用餐和感恩节的专栏 – 唯一的目标是“让您的胃变成海滩球的大致形状”并感激不尽。
感激我们是，以前的周期性布赖森已经回到了美国，转向了这片土地 – 居住在家里和妻子附近。
在她的仁慈影响下，他通过周到的见解而不是讽刺的刺伤来娱乐。
– 梅丽莎·罗西（Melissa Rossi）
来自出版商每周
前繁华的布赖森（Bryson）在他最畅销的森林中记录了一项努力，他收集了另一个：他每周写的《美国》中的异想天开的专栏，而1990年代中期在新罕布什尔州生活，为英国的周日报纸。
尽管他很高兴地形容自己被美国的轻松，友善和丰富的人眼花azz乱，但布赖森毫无疑问地找到了漫画目标，其中包括快餐，计算机效率，具有讽刺意味的是，美国友善和推定的便利性。
布赖森（Bryson）在戴夫·巴里（Dave Barry）风格的夸张中，有时会为尤克斯（Yuks）造成伤害，但是当他比较两种文化时，他很聪明，就像他们对圣诞节的不同待遇一样，指出英国人如何在这个假期中“打包他们所有的节日过度”。
布赖森（Bryson）还定期提到自己的英国妻子，这是B.夫人。
在其他情况下，他更清醒，批评反移民活动家，环境掠夺和毒品法（尽管他也阐明了这些幽默感）。
并非所有的柱子都达到了自己的印记，最好在小组中读取，但是该系列的销量应该足够好，尽管不太可能在树林里散步的高处。
特工，杰德·马特斯（Jed Mattes）。
作者之旅； BDD音频。
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产品描述
爱荷华州得梅因（Des Moines）出生的作家布赖森（Bryson）的首次成功是旅行书《失落的大陆》。
在英格兰居住了几年后，他想回到美国找到他过去的完美美国小镇，他很亲切地称为Amalgam。
随后更多的旅行书以“既不在这里也没有那里”（他在欧洲旅行）的形式，“来自一个小岛的笔记”（他在英国周围旅行的地方，然后与他回到美国永远住在那里）和“在树林里散步”（他在阿巴拉契亚步道走过的地方）。
回到美国后，布赖森开始为“周日晚上和白天的邮件”撰写一列。
这是这些列条目的集合。
布赖森（Bryson）撰写了从日常琐事到起诉人，海滩，电视，电影，空调，大学，美国，伤害危险，浪费资源和假期季节的所有内容。
书籍总体字数：82560，除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余76588计入单词总数。
书籍单词数在5万至10万之间，难度适合,不过还需要结合下方难度分析。
其中：
四级单词出现70460个/次,
六级单词（排除四级单词后）出现1077个/次，
托福单词出现36403个/次，
SAT单词出现4999个/次，
GRE单词出现7347个/次，考研单词出现70667个/次，
雅思单词出现18134个/次。
高中单词出现67421个/次。
（后附饼图供直观参考）
这些统计基于我的词库，不排除词库存在误差，仅供参考。
非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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