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书名:The Glass Castle玻璃城堡
作者:Jeannette Walls
出版社名称:Scribner Book Compan
出版时间:2006
语种:英语
ISBN
9780743247542
商品尺寸:13.3 x 1.5 x 20.3 cm
包装:平装
页数:288(以实物为准)

The Glass Castle《玻璃城堡》是美国著名记者珍妮特·沃尔斯2005年出版的回忆录,书中首次公开了自己的家庭背景和成长经历,作者凭借此书蜚声文坛。同名电影于2017年8月11日在美国上映,主演《房间》获得第88届奥斯卡获奖女主角的布丽·拉尔森担纲主演,和李安合作《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》的制片人吉尔-奈特为制片人。

珍妮特·沃尔斯的父亲雷克斯天资聪颖、魅力十足,清醒时上通天文、下知地理,可他在扑克桌前待的时间长过他的大部分工作,沉迷于酒精时,更是忘却家中嗷嗷待哺的孩子,甚至偷走孩子们省吃俭用存下来的钱买醉。母亲罗丝玛丽喜爱绘画、写作,向往波希米亚式的生活,空有教师资格证却不安于养家活口。她天赋是使事情合理化。公寓的墙太薄,很容易听到隔壁在讲什么,她会说,太赚了,不用上学就能学点西班牙语。

所以,珍妮特和她的兄弟姐妹从小就过着与众不同的生活:因为拖欠水电费,他们的父母经常深夜带着他们“落荒而逃”。有时车子正好开到了沙漠中央,他们就学印第安人以大地为床,以星空为被;圣诞节,他们的父亲因为丢了工作没钱买礼物,便带他们前往夜空下的亚利桑那沙漠,让他们各自认领一颗星星当礼物;日子拮据,没有钱交午餐费,孩子们便吃同学扔在垃圾桶里的残羹剩饭;衣服破了,他们便往身上涂颜色,好让破洞看不出来;有一次,他们的母亲躲在被窝里偷吃巧克力棒,被孩子们发现,可她竟然狡辩自己是牙龈不好,在运动下巴刺激血液循环……

终于,在历经一连串的困厄之后,孩子们一个接一个地逃到了纽约,但是不久之后,他们的父母就会随之出现……

这部比虚构小说更离奇曲折的回忆录,读来让人胆寒、心碎,然因其笔调异常轻松幽默,又让人忍俊不禁。

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.

珍妮特·沃尔斯,美国著名记者。撰有《闲聊:流言世界的内幕》、《闲聊:流言如何变成新闻,新闻怎样成为另一场秀》等书。2005年出版回忆录《玻璃城堡》,首次公开自己鲜为人知、与众不同的家庭背景和成长经历,凭借此书蜚声文坛。

现与丈夫约翰·泰勒(John Taylor)长住纽约城和长岛。

Jeannette Wallsgraduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir,The Glass Castle, has been aNew York Times bestseller for more than six years. She is also the author of the instantNew York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of TheNew York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.

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