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，在家鄉德克薩斯的沃斯堡，當時上六年級的泰勒有幸和“褐發藍眸、外形俊美的”美國總統握手。這是一個看起來“堅不可摧”的美男子。那天下午，老師宣布，一位偉人于當日在達拉斯逝世。泰勒回憶道：“這個新知識點揭示的歷史不是過去發生的事情，而是當時我們正經歷的。”泰勒稱，“自己和大多數猶太人一樣是一個叛逆的好孩子，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入青年。”他描寫了一個真實而生動的關于成長的故事。（來源：企鵝出版社）