THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: SCENES FROM A LIFE

Book ID/图书代码： 14560007B11579

English Summary/英文概要： In the Goolrick home there was a law: Never talk about the family in the outside world, never reveal the slightest crack in the facade. To all appearances, they lived an almost idyllic life. Two respected, charming parents everyone loved. Three bright, smiling children. A lovely home on a quiet street nestled in a small college town. But behind the facade this family had created lurked secrets so dark, so painful for one little boy, that his life would never be the same.

With devastating honesty and razor-sharp wit, Goolrick looks back at this seemingly serene time and at the parents who gave him life and then robbed him of it, who created his world and then destroyed it.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 家家有本難念的經。事情往往不能僅看表面。現代社會中，有許多孩子只能默默承受虐待卻不敢說出來….
南方小鎮中，ㄧ個看似有著和藹雙親，三個聰明伶俐小孩的溫暖家庭，背後竟是孩子最大的陰影。Goolrick的家庭鐵律是不得對外人說家裡的事。然而在完美家庭的表象下，Goolrick一直不敢說出父親對他做的事…
Goolrick寫道在他父親的喪禮上，”埋葬一個不可能遺忘的人，是多麼困難!”。這本傳記擁有真實、動人而不煽情的描寫手法。(VC)

Awards/获奖情况：“A powerful memoir from an extraordinary craftsman. There is both the elegance of Truman Capote and the earthiness of Rick Bragg in the writing”---Joe Drabyak, Chester Country Bool & Music Company

Described by Janet Maslin of the New York Times as "a blistering family memoir."

"Goolrick adeptly uses a slow, teasing way of revealing himself to the reader...Anecdotes of captivating vitality....The End of the World As We Know It is barbed and canny, with a sharp eye for the infliction of pain."---The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/books/26masl.html

"A gifted writer[’s]...memorable account of his terribly flawed family. ...Searing...It stays with you."---USA Today

"In this brutally painful remembrance of hard drinking, attempted suicide, and childhood trauma, first-time author Goolrick constructs a well-written, nonlinear narrative of his life...Goolrick’s memory of the details of his childhood is impressive, as is the deep sense of sorrow...the story evokes. A courageous and successful work."---People

"A devastating debut memoir …a Virginia childhood worthy of William Styron and Flannery O’Connor.. One of the most gripping and emotionally insightful passages is of his father’s funeral, where Goolrick makes clear how hard it is to bury a man you haven’t forgiven. The language is lush and poetic while never becoming purple. Goolrick is clearly a victim of his parents’ brutal abuse, but he has broken out of the categories of ’victim’ and ’survivor’ to become a powerful truth-teller."---Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"A moving, unflinchingly rendered story of how the past can haunt a life."---Publishers Weekly
"[An] unnerving, elegantly crafted memoir. . . . Morbidly funny."—Entertainment Weekly

版權已售: German: btb/Random House

About the Author/作者介绍： Robert Goolrick worked for many years in advertising.He lives in New York City.

Format:HARDCOVER

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