Timekeepers

Descriere

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks.Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalise it and make it meaningful. It has two simple intentions: to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts.

Despre autor

Simon Garfield

jurnalist britanic · n. 1960

Simon Frank Garfield este un jurnalist și autor britanic de non-ficțiune. A scris pentru publicații precum Time Out, The Independent și The Observer. Lucrările sale timpurii se concentrau pe industria muzicală, dar cărțile sale au explorat tot mai mult subiecte de nișă, de la wrestlingul britanic și inventarea culorii mov până la istoria enciclopediilor și a tipografiilor. Garfield își are sediul în Londra.