THE BALTIMORE BOOK OF THE DEAD
Book ID/图书代码： 07633018C00345
English Summary/英文概要： When Cheryl Strayed was asked by The Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time and again, she chose The Glen Rock Book of the Dead. Now that beloved book has a sequel: The Baltimore Book of the Dead, another collection of portraits of the dead, their compressed narratives weaving a unusual, richly populated memoir.
Approaching mourning and memory with intimacy, humor, and an eye for the idiosyncratic, the story begins in the 1960s in Marion Winik’s native New Jersey, winds through Austin, Texas and rural Pennsylvania, and finally settles in her current home of Baltimore.
Winik begins with a portrait of her mother, the Alpha, introducing locales and language around which other stories will orbit: the power of family, home, and love; the pain of loss and the tenderness of nostalgia; the backdrop of nature and public events. From there, she goes on to create a highly personal panorama of the last half century of American life. Joining the Alpha are the Man Who Could Take Off His Thumb, the Babydaddy, the Warrior Poetess, El Suegro, and the Thin White Duke, not to mention a miniature poodle and a goldfish.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当《波士顿环球报》屡次要求谢丽尔•斯特瑞德推荐的一本书时，她选择了格伦•洛克的《死亡之书》。现在，这本受人喜爱的作品有了姐妹篇：《巴尔的摩逝者之书》。这是另一本关于逝者的肖像集，对逝者的故事进行压缩，编织了一本不同寻常、内容丰富的回忆录。
故事开始于20世纪60年代、马里昂•威尼克的家乡新泽西。她用亲密和幽默的情怀以及独特的眼光来看待悲伤和记忆。她曾穿过奥斯汀、德克萨斯和宾夕法尼亚那些蜿蜒盘旋的乡村，最终定居在她现在的家——巴尔的摩。
威尼克从她母亲的肖像《阿尔法》开始，介绍了地区和语言:家庭、家乡和爱的力量；失去的痛苦和怀旧的温柔；自然和公共事件的背景。后续的故事都将以此为轴心。紧接着，她继续以高度个人化的方式描绘了过去半个世纪美国生活的全景。此外的肖像还包括《一个能把拇指摘下来的人》、《孩子爸爸》、《战士诗人》、《El Suegro》和《瘦白公爵》，甚至还有迷你狮子狗和金鱼的画像。(XMM)
Awards/获奖情况：玛丽安•威尼克的《珠宝盒》是一本充满金玉良言和对生命狂热激情的书，尽管这本书在很大程度上是在向死亡致敬。每个句子就像灌篮一样经过仔细的斟酌……这本书让人喘不过气来、令人心碎，也振奋人心。”——《文学中心》
“其中有60多篇文章读之让人心碎……另外的作品或幽默、或温柔，展露了维尼克自己的生活和他巨大的观察力。这是一本精致的、适合快速阅读的书，但是大多数人会想要重读，并在他们所爱的人离开后求助这本书。”——《图书馆杂志》
“这是一本致敬逝者的作品，致敬了许多的逝者。然而，主题却掩盖了这一系列充满诗意的回忆是多么生动有趣……长期以来，维尼克一直以死亡为写作主题，这就是为什么她的新作品集如此令人印象深刻。这里面收集了的欢闹的、心碎的、温柔的小插曲，让人感觉如此新鲜……故事简洁却充满魔力以及意想不到的动力。”——《科克斯书评》
Feast on Marion Winik’s jewelbox of a book filled with gold nuggets of prose and a fevered passion for life even though much is an homage to death itself. Every sentence is a carefully considered slam dunk . . . Breathless, heartbreaking, invigorating." ―Literary Hub
"The 60-plus essays are heartbreaking . . . Additional writings are humorous or tender, offering a glimpse of Winik’s own life and tremendous powers of observation. An exquisite, quick read that most will want to reread and turn to when their loved ones are gone." ―Library Journal
"This is a book about dead people, and lots of them. The subject matter, however, belies just how lively and joyous this collection of poetic remembrances really is . . . Winik has been writing about death for a long time, which is why it’s so impressive that her new collection of hilarious, heartbreaking, and tender vignettes feels so fresh . . . Brevity lends a charmed pithiness, as well as an unexpected momentum, to each story." ―Kirkus Reviews
•PBS NewsHour: Ann Patchett recommends as one of the best books of the year
•Oprah.com: “Crystalline remembrances … By turns reverent and wry, intimate and universal … [Winik’s] mission is not to be morbid but to find a place in our collective conversation for grief, which might be one of the last social taboos … A welcome salve to all of us, and encouragement to honor the people we’ve lost who are forever with us.”
•People Magazine: “An affecting collection of brief, incisive portraits of departed figures both public and private.
•The Star-Ledger names it One of the Top Ten Books of the Year
About the Author/作者介绍： 长期以来，《万物皆知》的评论员马里恩•威尼克著有《初恋来了》、《格伦•罗克的死亡之书》以及其他七部作品。她在巴尔的摩fishbowl.com网站上的专栏“波西米亚狂想曲”获得了《巴尔的摩杂志》最佳专栏和最佳幽默作家奖，她的文章曾在《纽约时报》、《太阳报》等多家刊物上发表。她是《每周读者》广播节目和播客的主持人，一家NPR的下属机构，总部设在巴尔的摩。她为《新闻日报》、《人物》和《柯克斯评论》撰写书评，并且是美国国家图书评论协会的董事会成员。她是巴尔的摩大学艺术硕士学位项目的教授。
Longtime All Things Considered commentator MARION WINIK is the author of First Comes Love, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, and seven other books. Her Bohemian Rhapsody column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has received the Best Column and Best Humorist awards from Baltimore Magazine, and her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and many other publications. She is the host of The Weekly Reader radio show and podcast, based at the Baltimore NPR affiliate. She reviews books for Newsday, People, and Kirkus Reviews and is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. She is a professor in the MFA program at the University of Baltimore.
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