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Vacationland
- True Stories from Painful Beaches
- ナレーター： John Hodgman
- 再生時間： 5 時間 23 分
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Vacationland
あらすじ・解説
John Hodgman - New York Times best-selling author, semifamous personality, deranged millionaire, increasingly elderly husband, father, and human of Earth - has written a memoir about his cursed travels through two wildernesses: from the woods of his home in Massachusetts, birthplace of rage, to his exile on the coast of Maine, so-called Vacationland, home to the most painful beaches on Earth.
Vacationland is also about Hodgman's wandering in the metaphoric wilderness of his 40s, those years when dudes especially must painfully stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weirder dads that they are.
Other subjects covered include the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison, and advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god.
After three best-selling books of fake facts, Hodgman is finally ready to tell the truth - in the same outlandish, audacious, and inimitable style that has won him fans in every medium he has worked: books, stage, social media, television, and movies.
批評家のレビュー
"Subtle and profound ... A strange and very funny book - one that makes comedy out of the anxieties and indignities of middle age.” (The Atlantic)
“Achingly funny ... Sharp, silly, and sensitive, Vacationland is a literary selfie of a concerned citizen storyteller - one in which the oldest slice of the United States does a little inelegant photobombing.” (NPR)
“An ambitious departure from Hodgman’s previous authorial endeavors. It’s funny, but it’s no joke. The book is a cleverly composed meditation on one privileged American’s life - and, glancingly, on America - at a crucial moment for both.” (Chicago Tribune)