Bill Bryson: At Home - A Short History of Private Life

Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped.
ISBN: 9780552777353
Szerző: Bill Bryson
Oldalszám: 700
Kötés: Puhakötés
Kiadás éve: 2011
Formátum: Könyv
Kiadó: BLACK SWAN
Nyelv: angol

Értékelés(Még nem érkezett értékelés.)

Ár: 3 850 Ft

Boltunkban nem kapható

Leírás

Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to "write a history of the world without leaving home." The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has fig-ured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.
Bill Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and he is a master at turning the seemingly isolated or mundane fact into an occasion for the most diverting exposi-tion imaginable. His wit and sheer prose fluency make "At Home" one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.

Értékelések

Még senki nem írt értékelést ehhez a termékhez.

A kategória toplistája