YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS
Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B82302
English Summary/英文概要： Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, and all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk, he runs into an old friend who offers him an extraordinary way out.
Robert James, wealthy and influential, a success story of the dotcom bubble, wants to become a political player. His plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit - the poster child for urban decline - and build a new America from their boarded-up ruins. For a small investment, Marnier can transform himself into a twenty-first-century pioneer. The realities of life on America’s urban frontier soon become apparent. For every hopeful misfit who’s come for a fresh start there’s a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by the new colonials. Marnier finds himself caught in the middle of everyone else’s battles - between local and outsider, rich and poor, black and white - until a terrible accident forces him to take sides.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在耶鲁大学度过十年时光，牛津大学所授予的额外文凭，克雷格•马尼尔所需要展示的便是自己的这段闲适学术生涯使得他得以最终在阿伯里斯特威斯定居下来。大学聚会上，有时差又宿醉的克雷格偶然间遇到了一名旧友，宣称可以为他提供一条很棒的出路。
罗伯特•詹姆斯，有权有势的成功人士，作为一名互联网泡沫的成功受益者，他正计划着迈向政客的道路。他的计划是：购买底特律附近的几块废弃街区--城市衰退的典型代表---并从废墟中重新建立起一个崭新的美国。只需要一些小小的投资，马尼尔就可以将他成功的改造成一名21世纪的先驱者。对每一名无法融入环境却又大有希望的人而言，如果寻求新的开始，那么等待着他们的是一个本土化的底特律，但同时之前的小块区域又已被新殖民地所吞噬。马尼尔发现自己深陷在别人们的战争中进退两难---在本地人与外来者，富人与穷人，黑人与白人之间----直到一场可怕事件的发生，他不得不最终选定支持方。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：“《就是请不要这样生活》中一场比赛在一间充满烟气的屋中举行。让我感觉自己仿佛经历了一系列在新闻中才会出现的片段。。。。。。用令人心碎不已的手法刻画了一场罪犯式的正义。”（卡尔•塔罗•格林菲尔德，作家，著有Triburbia 并合著有Dr. J: The Autobiography）
“引人入胜。。。。。。令你不由得联想起弗格森，莫，斯塔顿岛，纽约，以及北查尔斯顿，SC等许多。。。。。。马克沃伊兹大胆的写下了我们时代中最重要同时也最纤细的话题。”（出版家周刊）
“You Don’t Have to Live Like This takes a match to a house full of gas fumes. It made me feel like I had experienced a series of episodes I would normally only encounter via the news...a heartbreaking portrait of criminal justice.” (Karl Taro Greenfeld, author of Triburbia and co-author of Dr. J: The Autobiography)
“Engrossing …. will call to mind recent events in Ferguson, Mo., Staten Island, N.Y., and North Charleston, S.C., among others…. Markovits writes boldly about some of our era’s most important-and most delicate-subjects.” (Publishers Weekly)
About the Author/作者介绍： 本杰明•马克沃伊兹从小在德克萨斯、伦敦和柏林长大。他著有6部小说：The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days 和 Childish Loves。本杰明发表有多篇论文，故事集，诗歌以及评论，其涉猎范围包括浪漫主义，美国运动等，并曾发表在《卫报》《戈兰塔》《巴黎评论》和《纽约时报》等刊物。作者现居伦敦，在皇家哈洛维大学教授创造性写作。本杰明•马克沃伊兹从小在德克萨斯、伦敦和柏林长大。他著有6部小说：The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days 和 Childish Loves。本杰明发表有多篇论文，故事集，诗歌以及评论，其涉猎范围包括浪漫主义，美国运动等，并曾发表在《卫报》《戈兰塔》《巴黎评论》和《纽约时报》等刊物。作者现居伦敦，在皇家哈洛维大学教授创造性写作。
Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He is the author of six previous novels: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days and Childish Loves. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times, among other publications. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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