DREAMSELLER: AN ADDICTION MEMOIR

Book ID/图书代码： 14780008B23549

English Summary/英文概要： Deep down inside I knew that by virtue of the life I had been leading, jail was inevitable and a debt long overdue. But the most disheartening part of this ordeal occurred as the police led me into Central Booking. I had a clear view of the nearby skate park called the Brooklyn Banks, a famous skate spot that I had been shredding since I was eight years old. I could almost see a young version of myself, laughing with my friends, learning new tricks, skating under the warm evening sun.
“As a skateboarder, I was fixated on testing my boundaries, but this was my way of fooling myself into feeling in control. Soon it grew to consume me.”
At only twenty-two, Brandon Novak had accomplished more than most people dream of in a lifetime. By the age of fourteen, he had been discovered by legendary skateboarders Tony Hawk and Bucky Lasek, and signed on to skate professionally. By eighteen, he had traveled the world, signed autographs for thousands of fans, won big-time sponsorships, and had his photo plastered all over the skate magazines.
“I was a dreamseller. I sold those who loved me their dream that I was a recovering addict. I gained their trust, and betrayed them in order to get my precious next fix.”

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在滑板運動界過早成名的布蘭登˙諾華克，八歲時已登上街頭競技台展露頭角，十四歲就躍身美國名人之列，受邀到全球巡迴表演，廿二歲時，幾乎所有滑板雜誌都可看到他出現，經常是封面人物，布蘭登儼然年輕文化的代言人，生活言行與思維，也十足的酷炫前衛，被青春族群奉為偶像，並參與電影、電視影集的演出，極受歡迎。但布蘭登說不出的空虛感，讓他跌入了毒癮的漩渦無法自拔，本書詳述他的心路歷程。布蘭登坦承，身為一個極速運動明星，他必須不斷挑戰自我身心靈的疆界，因此不能抵抗毒品的誘惑。以布蘭登故事拍攝的電視影集「販夢人」，八月即將在全美播出。「販夢人」是滑板愛好者對布蘭登的暱稱，他在背上刺了這個綽號，也在書中赤裸道出他追尋的夢想，與他想帶給別人的夢。憂傷、叛逆之外，也洞悉人性的失落、脆弱和渴望。(TT)

Awards/获奖情况：Pro skateboarder loses everything to drugs, sees little light at the end of the tunnel afterward.Readers will learn more about Novak’s impressive skateboarding career in the ’90s by reading Tony Hawk’s foreword than by reading the book itself. This is an addiction memoir, and the genre’s format is by now practically set in stone: modern-day opener into which rude reality intrudes, then flashback to start of life of addiction, leading up to getting clean and ultimately vindication. While Novak and co-author Frantz don’t stint on the stock scenarios, they break the mold by not pretending that a junkie’s chaotic life can or should be represented in such a cut-and-dried fashion. Novak begins on August 11, 2003: "I am a twenty-five-year-old junkie, sleeping in an abandoned garage in one of the worst parts of Baltimore City." By the end of that day, he has hustled money from his mother, stolen furniture and turned a trick with a man twice his age to get his fix. The narrative settles into a rhythm after the recidivist Novak is checked into detox by a sponsor of nearly limitless patience. Following that, his account only occasionally darts backward into a happier youth, when he was touring the world as part of the famous Powell Peralta team, skating with the likes of Hawk, Buck Lasek and Steve Caballero. He served as a courier for a dealer while still on the team and crawled into the depths from there. The story of his inveterate addiction is only competently delivered, with Novak and Frantz providing reams of unnatural-sounding dialogue for the totemic figures - understanding counselor, abused mother, tough guardian-angel fellow junkie - who try to halt his slide into self-destruction. The book’s saving grace is the conclusion, which rejects the easy self-congratulation of too many addiction memoirs in favor of a closing memento mori.Dutifully constructed and sometimes surprising, but only occasionally insightful.---(Kirkus Reviews)

About the Author/作者介绍： Brandon Novak (b. December 10, 1978) is a skateboarder and friend of Bam Margera from Baltimore, Maryland and is a prominent member of the CKY Crew. Novak is referred to many nicknames in the CKY works, including Dream Seller (which is tattooed on his back), for "selling dreams left and right," referring to his reputation for being extremely promiscuous. Novak’s first child was born on December 5, 2005.
不滿卅歲的布蘭登，是典型「茫然的一代」，他的人生彷彿只有滑板，但是飆技耍炫、互尬蠻不在乎狠勁的群體氛圍，卻讓他越活越脫離現實。布蘭登毫不廢話，只是坦率自承他掙扎沉溺的真實經過，獻出了最年輕叛逆的回憶錄，最真誠直白的告解，也脫離傳統傳記濃厚的說教色彩。

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