Benjamin Taylor, The Hue and Cry at Our House
本杰明?泰勒 《我們家的嘈雜聲》

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，在家鄉(xiāng)德克薩斯的沃斯堡，當(dāng)時(shí)上六年級(jí)的泰勒有幸和“褐發(fā)藍(lán)眸、外形俊美的”美國(guó)總統(tǒng)握手。這是一個(gè)看起來(lái)“堅(jiān)不可摧”的美男子。那天下午，老師宣布，一位偉人于當(dāng)日在達(dá)拉斯逝世。泰勒回憶道：“這個(gè)新知識(shí)點(diǎn)揭示的歷史不是過(guò)去發(fā)生的事情，而是當(dāng)時(shí)我們正經(jīng)歷的。”泰勒稱，“自己和大多數(shù)猶太人一樣是一個(gè)叛逆的好孩子，有同性戀傾向。” 肯尼迪被暗殺的那一年，他的“精神世界突然從順其自然的童年被迫進(jìn)入青年。”他描寫了一個(gè)真實(shí)而生動(dòng)的關(guān)于成長(zhǎng)的故事。（來(lái)源：企鵝出版社）