HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD, THE(ISBN=9781400065431)

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  • 版 次:1
  • 页 数:301
  • 字 数:
  • 印刷时间:2007年03月01日
  • 开 本:32开
  • 纸 张:胶版纸
  • 包 装:精装
  • 是否套装:否
  • 国际标准书号ISBN:9781400065431
作者:Alec Wilkinson 著出版社:Random House US出版时间:2007年03月 
内容简介
  The Happiest Man in the World buoyantly describesseventy-four-year-old David Pearlman, a restless and migratorysoul, a mariner, a musician, a member of the Explorers Club and afriend of the San Francisco Beats, a former preacher and signpainter, a polymath, a pauper, and a football strategist for theRed Mesa Redskins of the Navajo Nation. When Pearlman was fifty, hewas bitten on the hand by a dog in Mexico and for two years got sosick that he thought he would die. When he recovered, he felt sodifferent that he decided he needed a new name. He began callinghimself Poppa Neutrino, after the itinerant particle that is sosmall it can hardly be detected. To Neutrino, the particlerepresents the elements of the hidden life that assert themselvesdiscreetly.
  Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki, Neutrino is the only manever to build a raft from garbage he found on the streets of NewYork and sail it across the North Atlantic.
作者简介

Alec Wilkinson has been a writer at The New Yorker since 1980. Before that he was a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and before that he was a rock and roll musician. He lives with his wife and son in New York City.


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