《happy bottom riding club, the》是2000年Random House US出版的圖書。
基本介紹
- 書名：happy bottom riding club, the
- 作者：Lauren Kessler
- 出版社：Random House US
- 出版時間：2000年5月
- ISBN：9780812992526
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Florence "Pancho" Barnes was a California heiress who inherited alove of flying from her grandfather, a pioneer balloonist in theCivil War. Faced with a future of domesticity and upper-crustpretensions, she ran away from her responsibilities as wife andmother to create her own life. She cruised South America. Shetrekked through Mexico astride a burro. She hitchhiked halfwayacross the United States. Then, in the late 1920s, she took to theskies, one of a handful of female pilots.
She was a barnstormer, a racer, a cross-country flier, and aHollywood stunt pilot. She was, for a time, "the fastest woman onearth," flying the fastest civilian airplane in the world. She wasan intimate of movie stars, a * doctor for the great directorErich von Stroheim, and, later in life, a drinking buddy of thesupersonic jet jockey Chuck Yeager. She ran a wild and wildlysuccessful desert watering hole known as the Happy Bottom RidingClub, the raucous bar and grill depicted in The Right Stuff.
In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, Lauren Kessler presents aportrait, both authoritative and affectionate, of a woman whodidn't play by women's rules, a woman of largeappetites--emotional, financial, and sexual--who called herself"the greatest conversation piece that ever existed."
作者簡介
Lauren Kessler is the author of nine books, among them Stubborn Twig, which received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for the year's best work of literary nonfiction. She directs the grad-uate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she lives with her husband and three children.
