دانلود کتاب پایین و بیرون در بهشت – زندگی آنتونی بوردین چارلز لیرهسن

We actually can learn a lot from celebrities, who after all travel the furthest and the fastest in life and therefore accumulate the most edifying scrapes and bruises. A normal person’s scars speak strictly of his or her probably prosaic personal history; the celebrity’s, on the other hand, show what can and inevitably (and reassuringly) does go wrong even when one has money, beauty, and adulation in extravagant supply. Anthony Michael Bourdain—a chef, writer, and the host of a cable TV travel show who died by his own hand on June 8, 2018, at the age of sixty-one—was a crash test dummy extraordinaire. He didn’t hide his scars and other imperfections as most celebrities do, and he told… well, not quite everything, as it turns out, but a good deal about his history of poor decision-making and worse luck and especially about what having “the best job in the world” meant when you were, like most of us, still caught up in the common comedy. From Tony we can learn not just practical tidbits like “why you probably shouldn’t order fish on a Monday” (his single most famous piece of advice, related in Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, the 2000 bestseller that first made him a star) and nuggets of wisdom like “travel isn’t always pretty; you get scarred, marked, changed in the process; it even breaks your heart”—but also things about life that you didn’t even know you didn’t know. For example, if we really do wind up with the face we deserve—in Tony’s case, a big, beautifully cragged-out Easter Island mask through which he somehow both eagerly and warily surveilled the world—the funeral we deserve is another matter entirely.