A BOY MADE OF BLOCKS
Book ID/图书代码： 07980015B84301
English Summary/英文概要： For all he loves his family, Alex has always struggled to connect with his eight-year-old autistic son Sam, and the strain has pushed his marriage with Jody to breaking point.
So Alex moves in with his merrily irresponsible best friend on the world’s most uncomfortable blow-up bed, all the while wondering if they will find a school where Sam can be happy and what he has to do to win back Jody.
As Alex begins to navigate dating, long-buried family secrets and part-time fatherhood, his son begins playing Minecraft. Sam’s imagination blossoms and the game opens up a whole new world for the two to share. Together, one family discovers that sometimes everything must fall apart before you can build new dreams.
A Boy Made of Blocks is a tear-jerking, hilarious novel about the power of difference, perfect for fans of Nick Hornby’s About a Boy and Mark Haddon’s A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 阿历克斯深爱着他的家庭，所以在与自己八岁大的自闭症儿子萨姆联系时，他总是感到很挣扎，而这种压力也使得他与朱迪的婚姻走向破碎。
阿历克斯暂时搬出来与自己最没心没肺的好朋友蜗居在世界上最不舒适的充气床上，他无时无刻都在思考要给萨姆找一个好学校，使他能快乐地学习，以及他该做些什么来挽回朱迪。
就在阿历克斯筹划约会、处理隐瞒良久的家庭秘密和作为父亲的职责时，他的儿子开始玩起了游戏“我的世界”。萨姆的想象力得到了极大的发挥，这个游戏为两父子打开了新世界的大门。他们明白了有时候只有每样事物都分崩离析，他们才能开始重建新梦。
《像素男孩》是一部催人泪下、又好笑好玩的小说，尼克??红比的《有关一个男孩》和马克??哈顿的《一只狗的午夜历险》的书迷也都会喜欢这本书的。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：Funny, expertly plotted and written with enormous heart. Readers who enjoyed The Rosie Project will love A Boy Made of Blocks - I did (Graeme Simsion)
Heartwarming, funny and special. I devoured this cracking book. (The Unmumsy Mum)
Very funny, incredibly poignant and full of insight. Awesome. (Jenny Colgan)
Warm and real, honest and heart-breaking, joyous and life-affirming. It has the lot. (Vanessa Greene)
Keith Stuart is a master at balancing humour alongside the serious. He has a light touch but also moves us deeply, and his characters are wonderfully real. Clever and full of insight. (Virginia Macgregor)
A Boy Made of Blocks is a wonderful read and I imagine that this will be one of many outstanding novels by Keith Stuart. (Huffington Post)
The characters are well-developed and vulnerable, learning to navigate and make sense of a world filled with obstacles. Stuart’s debut novel is a charming and timely tale of learning to connect in the digital age. (Kirkus)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-3792067/DEBUT-FICTION.html
It’s that time again when WHS are asking readers to vote for their favourite book of the Richard and Judy Spring Book Club – and, of course, we have one much loved title in the promotion at the moment – the uplifting, life-changing A Boy Made of Blocks by Keith Stuart:
https://blog.whsmith.co.uk/rjsp17-vote-now-for-your-richard-and-judy-spring-book-club-2017-winner/
This is testament both to the fantastic book Keith crafted – witness its 1,032 reviews on Amazon, of which there are 800 five-star.
Most of all, we can all be proud that it’s a book that even seems to be changing lives. Keith sent me the following email he got from a reader and I think, after all the sales, it’s maybe what counts the most:
“As an autistic, I am always fascinated by the way my brain is wired differently. I am a very emotional person, I readily cry when watching a sad film, I will often cry if a certain thought hits my brain. What I don’t do, and I wish to make it clear, that I have NEVER done, is cry from written prose. It quite simply doesn’t not elicit the same emotional reaction in me (clearly I am a visual autistic)
It may have been just how much I relate to the material, but I think your ability to beautifully create the scene, combine with my ability to relate to it, but the final scene succeeded where no one else ever has before, and this may sound funny, but I have been waiting for twenty years to read something that could make me cry, and I thought it would never happen.
About the Author/作者介绍： 基思??斯图尔特是《卫报》的游戏编辑。他起初是颇具影响力的杂志《边缘》的作者和专栏编辑，从2000年起开始为《官方游戏杂志》、《电脑游戏玩家》和《T3》自由撰稿，同时也为《费力兹》调查电子和相互性艺术。基思也为《卫报》撰写关于音乐、电影和媒体的文章，并经常做客《每周技术》节目。基思已婚，并有两个儿子。
Keith Stuart is games editor at the Guardian. He started out as writer and features editor on the highly influential magazine Edge before going freelance in 2000 to cover games culture for publications such as The Official PlayStation Magazine, PC Gamer and T3, as well as investigating digital and interactive art for Frieze. He also writes about music, film and media for the Guardian and is a regular on the Tech Weekly podcast. He is married with two sons.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：A BOY MADE OF BLOCKS by Keith Stuart has sold a combined 150,000 copies.
We sold A BOY MADE OF BLOCKS in Czech, Dutch, Slovak, Russian, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Korean, Vietnamese, Portuguese in Brazil, Portuguese in Portugal, Romanian, Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Hebrew, Polish, Swedish, Turkish, Estonian, Danish, Lithuanian, Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, in the USA to St Martin’s, and, of course, complex Chinese, simplified Chinese.
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