SHUT UP HE EXPLAINED
Book ID/图书代码： 01240004B04812
English Summary/英文概要： With a wicked sense of humor and a born writer’s perfect timing, Kate Lardner conjures up the Hollywood of the McCarthy era. In a kaleidoscopic and irresistible memoir, Lardner brings to life her jumbled childhood in a household of artistically talented, larger-than-life grown-ups.
When Kate was not yet two, her father, David, was killed while on assignment for The New Yorker in war-torn Germany. Two years later her mother, the actress Frances Chaney, married David’s brother—a marriage that endured for more than fifty years. Ring was already a successful screenwriter, having won an Oscar for cowriting the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy hit Woman of the Year; in 1971 he collected another one for M*A*S*H.
Shortly thereafter, Ring was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Asked about his membership in Hollywood’s Communist Party, Lardner said: “I could answer. . . . but if I did, I would hate myself in the morning.” This much-publicized declaration of silence sent Lardner to prison. Subsequently neither he nor Frances could get work, which marked the beginning of Kate’s blacklist childhood—and took the family from Mexico City to rural Connecticut to Manhattan.
Kate Lardner presents a vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the personal and family costs of weathering this ruthless and absurd period in history. She writes: “I wanted to tell my story of the events I had inherited. A therapist once told me she had the dirty job of ushering me into the real world. And now that I am more or less there, I have decided the time has come.”
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者不到2岁时，她的父亲就在德国殉职。2年之后，她的叔叔成为他的继父。当时他已是好莱坞有名的影视作家，得过奥斯卡奖。但不久之后继父被召到众院非美活动委员会作证，要他交待共产党的事。他因拒绝而被投入监狱。此后父母都失去工作，全家从墨西哥城搬到康涅狄克州的农村，再搬到曼哈顿。作者也就此成为一个在黑名单上的孩子。许多年过去后，作者重新回忆这段时间的生活及其造成的影响。
Awards/获奖情况：
About the Author/作者介绍： Kate Lardner出身于一个文学世家，她的祖父是有名的运动作家和短篇小说大师，她的父亲及3个叔叔也是作家。这是她的第一本书。
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：
原文第一章内容：暂无
手稿：暂无
大纲：暂无