MEDIUM HERO: AND OTHER STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 13260015B85138
English Summary/英文概要： Inside this book are stories about insects, piano teachers, talking birds, dead birds, ex-convicts, suicide attempts, tarot cards, and bible verses. Some of the stories happened to Korby and some of them he just made up. It doesn’t really matter which are which.
Up to this point in his life, he has been a professional singer-songwriter, traveling around by himself, playing songs for small audiences, selling CDs out of a suitcase. Occasionally there have been moments where the light shined particularly bright, but mostly it’s just been him and a guitar, making music in living rooms and clubs and the occasional concert hall.
He has met a lot of people, most of whom leaned―like him―toward the fringe side of the social spectrum. He’s written some of them into stories―hunched over a laptop in the backseat of a touring van, or in the lobby of a Best Western, or on the cracked vinyl couch of a rock club’s green room, poking a keyboard with a pair of sweaty pointer fingers.
He loved his dad’s stories. And then when he was seven, the Ramona Quimby books, and then he loved the Great Brain books, and then the Roald Dahl books. Most of his best friends have been characters from books he’s read. He’s been lucky to have the opportunity to read, and he feels like he should pay into the fund that made him rich. He’s always been drawn to fiction because it tells you the truth you need to know. And the truth he needs to know is that, despite considerable advances in science and industry, the world is still a big fat piece of magic.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书中有关于昆虫、钢琴教师、说话的鸟儿、死鸟、有前科的人、自杀企图、塔罗牌和圣经的故事。有些故事发生在Korby本人身上，还有一些是他杜撰的。当然了究竟哪些是真哪些是假并不重要。
迄今为止，Korby的身份是职业歌手、词曲作者，一个人到处旅行，为很小部分听众唱歌，随身带着旅行箱，箱子里装着待售的CD。偶尔有时候会有人关注到他，但更多的时候，在客厅里、俱乐部里或者偶尔在音乐厅里，只有他一个人，和他的吉他相依为命。
他遇到了很多人，其中大部分人（和他本人一样）属于社会边缘阶层。他蜷缩在旅游面包车的后座上，或者在Best Western酒店的大堂里，或在坐在某个俱乐部的已经破了皮的沙发上，用一对汗津津的手指戳着笔记本电脑的键盘，把其中的一些人写成了故事。
他喜欢他爸爸的故事。当他七岁的时候，他喜欢Ramona Quimby的书，后来是Great Brain系列，后来是Roald Dahl的书。他的大多数好朋友都是书中的角色。他很幸运有机会读书，并觉得自己也有义务让这个宝库更加丰富。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：Korby Lenker讲述这些故事的时候对自己的本人的出场时刻控制得相当好，这些故事个性鲜明，充满娱乐性，又让人感到无比地有道理。那种充满时尚感、滑稽而且幽默的笔触让我觉得自己好像听到有人在对我讲这些故事。我完全被本书迷住了。（Tim O’Brien）
"Korby Lenker’s keen control of narrative voice is spot-on in each of these stories -- distinctive, disarming, entertaining, and completely convincing. The stylish, often funny, sometimes tongue-in-cheek tone of the book made it feel as if I were hearing the stories being spoken aloud to me late at night. I was thoroughly captivated by Medium Hero." ― Tim O’Brien
About the Author/作者介绍： Korby Lenker是个不错的词曲作者。作为歌手也不错。作为作者当然也不错。他迄今的成就包括：在传奇的西雅图独立摇滚站KEXP上有显著的点播量；BBC2台的Bob Harris采访过他，这差不多是一个草根创作歌手巡演英国以后可以指望的最高荣誉了；在包括Willie Nelson、Ray LaMontagne、Nickel Creek等名人的演出中短暂出场；以及在Merlefest民谣歌曲创作比赛上得奖、在Kerrville民俗节上得了民谣新歌创作比赛的奖项。Lenker在爱达荷州的双子瀑布边长大。他父亲是入殓师。他毕业于华盛顿贝灵汉大学。本书是他的第一本书。
Korby Lenker is a sneaky-good songwriter. And singer. And author. An abbreviated list of Lenker’s achievements so far includes: a significant amount of airplay on the legendary Seattle indie rock station KEXP; a BBC 2 interview with Bob Harris, which is only about the highest honor a rootsy singer-songwriter touring the UK can get; opening slots for acts ranging from Willie Nelson to Ray LaMontagne, Nickel Creek, Keith Urban, Susan Tedeschi, and Tristan Prettyman; and wins in the Merlefest folk songwriting contest as well as the Kerrville Folk Festival’s elite New Folk songwriting competition. Lenker was raised in Twin Falls Idaho. He is the son of a mortician and attended college in Bellingham, Washington, and there founded the Barbed Wire Cutters, called by SPIN Magazine "The Young Riders of the Bluegrass Revolt." Medium Hero is his first book.
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