It belongs to the best American literature of idealism and loss, a profoundly eloquent reading of our mid-century history and its heartbroken legacy to this day. This acute, intense memoir achieves the stature of national as well as personal elegy, a breathtaking accomplishment, classical and impassioned. Starring: Alastair Sim,Jack Warner,Valerie White Watch all you want. Kennedy in Dallas, Benjamin Taylor returns to the morning of the assassination in his hometown of Fort Worth when he had the dazzling experience, as a schoolboy, of shaking the hand of the President, his hero. Hue and Cry 1947 Maturity rating: 13+ Comedies In postwar London, a group of boys set out to foil a criminal plot when they discover their favorite comic book is being used to send coded messages. Andrew Solomon Part of the marvel of the The Hue and Cry at Our House is how one year. “In his keen focus on the 1963 death of John F. Stephen Harrigan, New York Times Book Review In this lyrical and. An elegantly written book, erudite, perceptive and at times painfully candid.”- Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal Taylor writes bracingly of life in the early ’60s, a time at once light-hearted and filled with dread-of polio, race riots and Russian missiles. Taylor chronicles the events of the following 12 months from the double viewpoint of a boy and of a middle-aged writer recollecting the past. It is an utterly enchanting little masterpiece.” –Andrew Solomon Reading this book is like reading all of Proust in just under two hundred pages. His insights are wise, his sense of humor always in evidence, and his yearning for lost time exquisitely palpable. “In this lyrical and brilliant memoir, Benjamin Taylor investigates his childhood with piercing clarity and unapologetic nostalgia. Any year I chose would show the same mettle, the same frailties stamping me at eleven and twelve.” Our years are so implicated in one another that the least important is important enough. As he writes, “ny twelve months could stand for the whole. In lyrical, translucent prose, he thoughtfully extends the story of twelve months into the years before and after, painting a portrait of the artist not simply as a young man, but across his whole life. Looking back on the love and tension within his family, the childhood friendships that lasted and those that didn’t, his memories of summer camp and family trips, he reflects upon the outsized impact our larger American story had on his own.īenjamin Taylor is one of the most talented writers working today. From there Taylor traces a path through the next twelve months, recalling the tumult as he saw everything he had once considered stable begin to grow more complex. Only a few hours later, Taylor’s teacher called the class in from recess and, through tears, told them of the president’s assassination. Kennedy’s speech in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963, he was greeted by, among others, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his hand.
A memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed.Īfter John F.
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