One Summer

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Bill Bryson: One Summer (2013, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

Idioma English

Publicado el 16 de julio de 2013 por Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-385-53782-7
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Eternal Summer

It works as a snapshot and a sweeping epic. The main recurring thought I had was that all of this was happening all the time, and several slices of it other than the likes of Lindbergh or Baseball was hardly known to the average person at the time, I'd bet. It's all still happening all the time, and we suffer the severe misfortune of a postmodern press that seems to be writing as if we must know all of these horrors. And they stab us in the back while they do it by prewriting hagiography.

In the second half, it became increasingly evident that he was writing to fill the months and the book rather than just finishing off the stories he had come to tell. Perhaps that was more on theme, because new things are happening all the time, too.

I enjoyed it. Several fun nights listening …

Temas

  • Popular culture, united states
  • United states, history, 1919-1933
  • United states, social conditions, 1865-1945
  • United states, social life and customs