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One Summer

America 1927

Bill Bryson

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English
Black Swan
02 June 2014
Series: Bryson
ABBEY'S CHOICE JUNE 2014 ----- In the summer of 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 an over-the-hill baseball player named Babe Ruth, and an almost impossible amount more.

In this hugely entertaining book, Bill Bryson spins a story of brawling adventure, reckless optimism and delirious energy. With the trademark brio, wit and authority that has made 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 for ever.

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Imprint:   Black Swan
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 40mm
Weight:   482g
ISBN:   9780552772563
ISBN 10:   0552772569
Series:   Bryson
Pages:   672
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Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Bill Bryson's bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent, A Walk in the Woods and Notes from a Small Island, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Royal Society's Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award. He has written books on language, on Shakespeare, and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His last critically lauded bestseller was At Home: a Short History of Private Life. He was born in the American Mid-West, and lives in the UK.

Reviews for One Summer: America 1927

A fascinating snapshot of a season during which America, for better or worse, ushered in the modern world. Sunday Times A gifted raconteur...The book is filled with eccentric, flamboyant characters and memorable stories...highly amusing. Guardian A wonderful book on a pivotal year, in which the gravitational pull of the world shifted from Europe to America. Mail on Sunday A great new form of literature: biography of a few months in one country. -- Matt Ridley The Times (Books of the Year) 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. Observer


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