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Benjamin Taylor, The Hue and Cry at Our House
本杰明•泰勒 《我们家的嘈杂声》

One morning Taylor, then a sixth grader in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas has the honour of shaking the hand of the President of the United States, an "Apollo" with "copper-coloured hair and blue eyes". A man who is obviously "indestructible". That afternoon the teacher announces that a great man had died in Dallas today. "The fresh knowledge that followed… was a discovery of history not as what happened in the past but as the current we rode," Taylor recalls. The year that John F Kennedy was assassinated is the year in which Taylor, who describes himself as "a repellently good boy like most of my kind, Jewish and going-to-be homosexual", is "yanked from the random floating mental life of childhood and propelled into youth." His account is a precise and eloquent coming-of-age. (Credit: Penguin)
一天早晨，在家乡德克萨斯的沃斯堡，当时上六年级的泰勒有幸和“褐发蓝眸、外形俊美的”美国总统握手。这是一个看起来“坚不可摧”的美男子。那天下午，老师宣布，一位伟人于当日在达拉斯逝世。泰勒回忆道：“这个新知识点揭示的历史不是过去发生的事情，而是当时我们正经历的。”泰勒称，“自己和大多数犹太人一样是一个叛逆的好孩子，有同性恋倾向。” 肯尼迪被暗杀的那一年，他的“精神世界突然从顺其自然的童年被迫进入青年。”他描写了一个真实而生动的关于成长的故事。（来源：企鹅出版社）