REJUVENILE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Once upon a time, boys and girls grew up and set aside
childish things. Nowadays, moms and dads skateboard alongside their
kids and download the latest pop-song ringtones. Captains of
industry pose for the cover of BusinessWeek holding Super Soakers.
The average age of video game players is twenty-nine and rising.
Top chefs develop recipes for Easy-Bake Ovens. Disney World is the
world’s top adult vacation destination (that’s adults without
kids). And young people delay marriage and childbirth longer than
ever in part to keep family obligations from interfering with their
fun fun fun.
　　Christopher Noxon has coined a word for this new breed of
grown-up: rejuveniles. And as a self-confessed rejuvenile, he’s a
sympathetic yet critical guide to this bright and shiny world of
people who see growing up as “winding down”—exchanging a life of
playful flexibility for anxious days tending lawns and mutual
funds.
　　In Rejuvenile, Noxon explores the historical roots of today’s
rejuveniles (hint: all roads lead to Peter Pan), the “toyification”
of practical devices (car cuteness is at an all-time high), and the
new gospel of play. He talks to parents who love cartoons more than
their children do, twenty-somethings who live happily with their
parents, and grown-ups who evangelize on behalf of all-ages tag and
Legos. And he takes on the “Harrumphing Codgers,” who see the
rejuvenile as a threat to the social order.
　　Noxon tempers stories of his and others’ rejuvenile tendencies
with cautionary notes about “lost souls whose taste for childish
things is creepy at best.” (Exhibit A: Michael Jackson.) On
balance, though, he sees rejuveniles as optimists and capital-R
Romantics, people driven by a desire “to hold on to the part of
ourselves that feels the most genuinely human. We believe in play,
in make believe, in learning, in naps. And in a time of deep
uncertainty, we trust that this deeper, more adaptable part of
ourselves is our best tool of survival.”
　　Fresh and delightfully contrarian, Rejuvenile makes hilarious
sense of this seismic culture change. It’s essential reading not
only for grown-ups who refuse to “act their age,” but for those who
wish they would just grow up.
　　From the Hardcover edition.

　　Christopher Noxon has written for The New York Times Magazine,
Los Angeles Magazine, and Salon. He lives with his wife and three
children in Los Angeles.
　　From the Hardcover edition.

　　“I read Rejuvenile excitedly, eager to get to Noxon’s
conclusions, feeling over and over that he was describing something
I sensed was there but hadn’t quite put into words. An eye-opener.”
—Ira Glass, host of public radio’s This American Life
　　“Geezers wearing blue jeans and watching cartoons and playing
videogames is not precisely what Bob Dylan had in mind (‘May you
stay forever young’) back in the countercultural day. But as
Christopher Noxon smartly and definitively explains, never-ending
youthfulness—that is, the mass refusal to swear off fun and comfort
for the sake of grown-up propriety—is the enduring legacy of the
Woodstock generation.” —Kurt Andersen, host of public radio’s
Studio 360 and author of Turn of the Century
　　“Rejuvenile is better than any book out there about play. It
sweeps together stories of real people being true to their core
selves. This is not a book for escapists; it is a book for curious
open explorers looking to lead more effective, flexible, adaptive,
vital, and still responsible lives.” —Stuart L. Brown, M.D.,
founder and president, the Institute for Play
　　“Any book that inspires me to rediscover Four Square and Duck
Duck Goose is A-OK with me. Rejuvenile made me want to play and it
made me think—a stellar combination. Thank you, Christopher, for
giving us a concept we actually need: a new, liberating
redefinition of adulthood, where you can be a responsible grown-up
and still maintain a sense of wonder.” —Sasha Cagen, author of
Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics
　　“With Rejuvenile, Christopher Noxon brilliantly charts the
continual turning of the Boomers, X’ers and Y’ers away from the
brittle authority of work-obsessed adulthood. We seriously need
more playful times, and Rejuvenile will help us get there.” —Pat
Kane, author of The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of
Living
　　“Christopher Noxon has the same affection for the ingenuous
adults he describes as they do for their Ninja Turtles,
skateboards, and Lego blocks. Noxon is an avid collector in his own
right—one of compelling characters, funny stories, and insights
that speak to our mixed-up times.” —Ethan Watters, former Chuck E.
Cheese Rat and author of Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New
Family?
　　From the Hardcover edition.