THE LAST TIME I WAS ME

Book ID/图书代码： 14780008B19833

English Summary/英文概要： Women can look so innocent. And a few of them might be. Innocent, I mean. Most aren’t. Most have secrets. Pretty big ones, if I do say so myself. They silently nurture raging passions they’ve smothered for years because life has insisted they do so.

I wrapped up my grandmother’s tea cup collection and my mother’s china, then grabbed a violin I’d hidden way back in my closet that made me cry, a gold necklace with a dolphin that my father gave me two weeks before he died of a heart attack when I was twelve and, at midnight, with that moon as bright as the blazes, I left Chicago. When Jeanne Stewart stops at The Opera Man’s Cafe in Weltana, Oregon, to eat pancakes for the first time in twelve years, she has no idea she’s also about to order up a whole new future. It’s been barely a week since she succumbed to a spectacularly public nervous breakdown in front of hundreds of the nation’s most important advertising and PR people. Jeanne certainly had her reasons--her mother’s recent death, the discovery that her boyfriend had been sleeping with a dozen other women, and the assault charges that resulted when Jeanne retaliated in a creative way against him, involving condoms and peanut oil.
Now, en route to her brother’s house in Portland, Jeanne impulsively decides to spend some time in picturesque Weltana. Staying at a B&B run by the eccentric, endearing Rosvita, she meets a circle of quirky new friends at her court-ordered Anger Management classes. Like Jeanne, all of them are trying to become better, braver versions of themselves. Yet the most surprising discoveries are still to come--a good man who steadily makes his way into her heart and a dilapidated house that with love and care might be transformed into something wholly her own, just like the new life she is slowly building, piece by piece.
As heartfelt as it is hilarious, The Last Time I Was Me is a warm, wise novel about breaking down, opening up, and finally letting go of everything we thought we should be, in order to claim the life that has been waiting all along.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 女人总是可以假装天真无辜。或许有些女人真的是天真，但大部分的女人不是这样，她们藏着秘密。她们的心里默默滋生出狂热的激情，但却不得不将这股激情扑灭，因为生活让她们不得不这么做。
The Last Time I Was Me讲的是一个正巧陷入人生逆境，名叫Jeanne Stewart的女人的故事。
Jeanne非常背运，她在834家广告媒体前职责他们无知蠢笨。此外，她还对背叛自己的男友进行了有创意的报复，因此受到刑事和道德上的职责。
她为母亲的死而悲痛，一时无法走出阴影，想着自己是否要开着新式的烈马牌汽车到太平洋去。满月之夜，Jeanne带上她收集的各款高跟鞋、祖母留下的茶杯、一架让她感动流泪的小提琴和母亲的瓷器，远赴俄勒冈州。
在俄勒冈州，她参加了一个愤怒管理咨询机构，赤身裸体沿着河边走，展开了一段恋情、埋葬了过去的自我，学到了很多有关细菌的知识、重建了一座房子，有生之年第一次品尝了薄煎饼，在花生酱里打滚、像小鸟一样自由的飞翔，参加了一次反政府运动，给予苦难者以帮助，经历了一次审判。(YM)

Awards/获奖情况：The author of Julia’s Chocolates delivers a sometimes fun tale of revenge and rebirth that begins when narrator Jeanne Stewart discovers her longtime live-in boyfriend has been cheating on her. She exacts a creative revenge involving condoms and peanut oil (her boyfriend is allergic), resulting in Slick Dick suing her. His betrayal, following the death of her mother and weeks of working excessive hours, results in an embarrassing public nervous breakdown. Jeanne sells everything and lands in a small Oregon town, where, amid an eccentric cast, she enrolls in a court-ordered anger-management class and attempts to rebuild her life. Her initial recovery breakthrough occurs when she falls while running naked (this, strangely, is part of the program) along the river and a nice man helps her. When her brother urges Jeanne to work on a political campaign for Oregon’s governor, Jeanne discovers the candidate is her river rescuer. Other irons in the fire include Jeanne’s efforts to renovate a derelict house and her ex’s looming lawsuit. Though initially charming, the book has a tendency to overload the narrative with sass and excessive wordplay, which slows the plot and keeps the reader at an uncomfortable distance. (May) ---From Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： Cathy Lamb was born in Newport Beach, California. As a child, she mastered the art of skateboarding, catching butterflies in bottles, and riding her bike with no hands. When she was 10, her parents moved her, two sisters, a brother, and two poorly behaved dogs to Oregon before she could fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a surfer bum. She then embarked on her notable academic career where she earned good grades now and then, spent a great deal of time daydreaming, ran wild with a number of friends, and landed on the newspaper staff in high school. When she saw her byline above an article about people making out in the hallways of the high school, she knew she had found her true calling.http://www.cathylamb.net/
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