At Home: A short history of private life

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Bill Bryson

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William McGurry (né le 8 décembre 1951) est un auteur anglo-américain de livres de non-fiction sur des sujets tels que les voyages, l'anglais et la science. Né aux États-Unis, résidant en Grande-Bretagne pendant la majeure partie de sa vie d'adulte, il est retourné aux États-Unis entre 1995 et 2003 et détient à la fois la nationalité américaine et britannique. Il a été recteur de l'Université de Durham de 2005 à 2011.

Bryson s'est fait connaître au Royaume-Uni en publiant et en accompagnant la série télévisée Notes from a Small Island (1995), une exploration de la Grande-Bretagne. Il a de nouveau acquis une large reconnaissance pour avoir publié Une courte histoire de presque tout (2003), un livre largement acclamé pour sa communication savante accessible. En octobre 2020, il a annoncé qu'il s'était «retiré» de l'écriture de livres.

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“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.

 

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