THE GOLDEN DOOR: LETTERS TO AMERICAN
Book ID/图书代码： 04300012B59574
English Summary/英文概要： Where were you when John F. Kennedy was shot? Today the answer more often than not is going to be ’not born’. You have to be some way past 45 to know where you were when Kennedy was shot in Dallas in 1963. A generation later, you could ask the same question about the World Trade Centre. Where were you when the plane hit the twin towers on 11 September 2001? But this book is about what happened between those two moments. The world’s perception of America changed between those two waves.
AA Gill’s book is about the things he’s always found admirable and optimistic about the United States and its citizens. Two of the happiest times of his life were spent living in New York and the mountains of Kentucky. The contrast between the two couldn’t have been more complicated and different. The America he found was contradictory and elusive, not the simpletons’ place he’d been led to believe. It was still a list of raw ingredients rather than the old stew of Europe.
Now AA Gill takes another look at the America he knew in the Seventies, a place that seemed to hold promise, practical energy and a plan for the future. How did it become the political magnetic north against which the liberal intellectuals from the rest of the world set their opinions. Why is it so easily mocked, so comprehensively blamed, so thoughtlessly hated?
The book is a collection of linked essays based around places that will open up truths and mythologies about America and Americans. The theme of his journey will be searching for ’the home of’. Every other small town in America boasts on its Welcome sign that it is the home of something or other. A mountain, a mine, peaches, spotted pigs, a president, the world’s biggest ball of string, barbeques, the deepest hole. So that’s where AA Gill starts, going to find the home of everything.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当John F. Kennedy被枪杀的时候你在哪里呢?如今的答案多半都是“还没出生”。在过去45年里你有多种方式可以知道1963年Kennedy在达拉斯被枪杀的时候你在哪里。一代人以后,你可以问关于世界贸易中心的同样的问题。当2001年9月11日飞机撞上双子塔的时候你在那里呢?但是这本书是关于这两个时刻之间发生的事情。在这个时间段内，世界对美国的认知在发生变化。
AA Gill的书描写的是他时刻关注的那些关于美国及其公民的令人钦佩的和积极乐观的事情。他生活中最幸福两段时光分别是住在纽约的时候和住在肯塔基州山区的时候。这两段生活之间的对比是复杂和悬殊的。他所发现的美国是矛盾和难以捉摸的,而不是他一直认为的简单的地方。美国还一直是一个原材料国家，而不是欧洲的旧鱼塘。
现在AA Gill以一个七十年代的角度来重新审视美国,那是一个看起来守信用,有能源和对未来有规划的地方。那它是如何成为对抗世界其他地区的自由主义知识分子们的意见的政治磁场北部的呢。为什么它这么轻易被嘲笑,如此全面的被指责,如此草率的被憎恨?
这本书是围绕着地方来写的散文连接的集合，揭露了美国和美国人的真理和神话。他旅行的主题探索的是“根源”。 美国的每一个小镇都用其受欢迎的景观来自我夸赞,这就是一些东西或其他东西的根源。一座山,一座矿,桃子, 花猪,总统,世界上最大的绳子围成的球,烧烤,最深的洞。这就是AA Gill开始的地方,去寻找万物的根源。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：这是一个滑稽尖刻的倒刺,文章引发的转折和恰当的实例选择像以往一样超大(Tom Hawker旅游热20120701)
这是一本非常有趣的碎片的集合,灵感来自于他对美国的爱和了解，让读者意识到了他的天赋(Nick Rennison《星期日泰晤士报》20120708)
他狡猾敏锐的观察力和机智诙谐一如既往。。。对我们有启示作用(《时尚先生》20120801)
Gill成功的让我们相信了他对这个主题拥有一个深入的了解。(Toby Young《星期日邮报》20120715)
他用他标志性的欢乐深入研究美国人的生活,他探索了移民和性别、慈善和枪支(Edwina Langley《女士》20120810)
他经常是诙谐幽默、容易阅读的(刘易斯•琼斯《观察家》20120804)
《金色的门》不会让AA Gill的仰慕者们失望，这是对美国快乐和优点的一个异乎寻常的争论，这是非常有趣的。(Stephen Bleach《星期日泰晤士报》20121125)
About the Author/作者介绍： AA Gill出生在爱丁堡。他是两本小说的作者，还是关于伦敦最著名的餐馆中的两个的书的作者,常春藤和随想曲。他也是《AA Gill离开》、《愤怒的岛》,《前科》,《席间的谈话》以及最近的《论文观点》的作者。他是《星期日泰晤士报》的电视及餐厅评论家。他住在伦敦,花费一大部分时间在旅行。 A.A. Gill was born in Edinburgh. He is the author of two novels and of books on two of London’s most famous restaurants, The Ivy and Le Caprice. He is also the author A.A. Gill is Away, The Angry Island, Previous Convictions, Table Talk and, most recently, Paper View. He is the TV and restaurant critic for the Sunday Times. He lives in London and spends much of his year travelling.
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