Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 22/05/2014
ISBN: 9780552772563
Length: 672 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 48mm x 127mm
Weight: 617g
RRP: £10.99
In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth.
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, the thrillingly improbable return to greatness of over-the-hill baseball player Babe Ruth, and an almost impossible amount more.
In this hugely entertaining book, Bill Bryson spins a tale of brawling adventure, reckless optimism and delirious energy. With the trademark brio, wit and authority that make him Britain’s favourite writer of narrative non-fiction, he brings to life a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage, and changed the world.
Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 22/05/2014
ISBN: 9780552772563
Length: 672 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 48mm x 127mm
Weight: 617g
RRP: £10.99
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?
A fascinating snapshot of a season during which America, for better or worse, ushered in the modern world.
A gifted raconteur...The book is filled with eccentric, flamboyant characters and memorable stories...highly amusing.
A great new form of literature: biography of a few months in one country.
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.