THE YEAR THE MUSIC CHANGED: THE LETTERS OF ACHSA MCEACHERN-ISAACS & ELVIS PRESLEY
Book ID/图书代码： 06120005B06547
English Summary/英文概要： It is 1955. Achsa is a lonely, passionate and precocious fourteen-year-old. Isolated at school by her intelligence and disfigurement, troubled at home by the undercurrents in her parents’ relationship, she finds comfort and inspiration in the tunes and rhythms she hears on her radio. Hearing a recording by an unknown 20-year-old country singer named Elvis Presley, she fires off a fan letter, telling him she knows he’s going to be a star.
Insecure in the world he is entering, passionate about music and burning with a desire to succeed, Elvis answers her and enlists her help in teaching him how to "talk good." The intimate, touching correspondence that follows chronicles Achsa and Elvis’ coming of age as artists and individuals. Able to confide in nobody else, they share with each other their most private dreams and fears. Elvis becomes Achsa’s sounding board as she watches her beautiful, distant mother and her sternly religious father lurch toward tragedy, confronts her own scarred mouth, and faces a shattering loss. The young singer responses reveal his fierce, aching innocence in the year before his star burst forth and offer a fascinating glimpse into the grassroots history of rock and roll.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1955年是搖滾紀元(Rock Era) 的開始，對所有樂迷都極為重要的一年。 14歲的女孩阿嘉莎(Achsa)與當時默默無名的歌手Elvis Presley在這年裡書信往來。作者透過信件的方式，描述一位超級巨星即將成名前的想法與情感。這ㄧ年，鄉村音樂加入節奏藍調，形成全新的音樂型態，影響整個世界的搖滾樂年開始發燒。
1955 年，十四歲的叛逆女孩阿嘉莎(Achsa)，學校與家庭都令她煩惱，只能在音樂裡尋求慰藉。那年她在電台裡聽到一個默默無名的鄉村歌手所唱的”That’s right, Mama”，她忍不住提筆寫信給後來成為超級巨星的貓王Elvis Presley，告訴他，他的音樂真是太棒了並斷言他以後一定會紅，只是…這麼棒的音樂卻播錯電台！ 沒想到竟然會收到回信，兩人開始在信件裡，分享夢想、生活、對事情的想法、彼此鼓勵，這一年對他們彼此的人生都產生莫大的影響。(VC)
Awards/获奖情况：版權已售:義大利、日本
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"A tender and often very funny evocation of yearning, love, disillusionment, joy, and, above all, the hard and redemptive necessity for change." --- New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Sweetwater Creek
Library Journal starred review --- " A touching, funny, tender exchange between two people trying to find their way through thorny emotional terrain. Highly recommended "
Kirkus Reviews --- "Sweet and gripping. A touching coming-of-age tale"
Publisher’s Weekly --- "Warm, lively and immensely readable"
MUSIC gets a Hollywood rave review!
"Atlanta Journal-Constitution --- "May engrave itself into the memories of more readers than To Kill a Mockingbird.... Thomas has pulled off a nearly impossible feat of the creative imagination, defying the stigma of epistolary fiction and, better, defying the overpowering clich?of Elvis Presley"
Raleigh News Observer --- "The most satisfying novel I’ve read in many years"
The Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch Weekender --- "Thomas pulls off the novel with panache"
The Nashville Scene --- "You can’t help falling in love with this heart-thawing epistolary novel"
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette --- "She has taken the icon and made him real"
Creative Loafing --- "A most wholesome and tender love"
Southern Distinction --- "I could hardly put it down"
Elvis Information Network --- "If you enjoy good fiction, you’ll love The Year the Music Changed."
About the Author/作者介绍： DIANE THOMAS holds an MFA from Columbia University and has been Entertainment Editor of The Atlanta Constitution, a writer for Atlanta magazine and a freelance writer/editor. She and her husband divide their time between the Georgia mountains and an island off the Florida panhandle. The Year the Music Changed is her first novel.
Format:HARDCOVER
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