PLENTY ENOUGH SUCK TO GO AROUND

Book ID/图书代码： 14780008B26635

English Summary/英文概要： It seems over the years I have become something of a professional enthusiast, which is weird, because I’m also kind of cynical and grumpy. Mostly, this all just makes me a typical New Orleanian of sorts.

The cliché “New Orleans gets into people’s blood” happens to be very true—just not always convenient. For Cheryl Wagner (along with her indie-band boyfriend, a few eccentric pals, some ne’er-do-wells, and two aging basset hounds) abandoning the city she loved wasn’t an option.

Well-meaning out-of-town friends called my GoPhone with absurd suggestions of where Jake and I should stow ourselves. Austin, Asheville, and Portland kept coming up as our personal Shangri-La for reasons I could not fathom other than that these were towns with well-documented vegetarian populations.

This is the story of Cheryl’s disturbing surprise view from her front porch after she moved back home to find everything she treasured in shambles…and her determined, absurd, and darkly funny three-year journey of trying to piece it all back together.

If instead of moving from a small Louisiana town to New Orleans at seventeen I had fled the South like forward-looking modern careerist girls without money are all supposed to, and moved into one of those New York or Metro anywhere cubbyholes off a subway entrance, then I would not be on the back balcony about to fall to my death now. I would be bored, maybe. But safe!

In the same heartfelt and hilarious voice that has drawn thousands of listeners to her broadcasts on public radio’s This American Life, Wagner shares her unique yet universal story of rebuilding a life after it’s been flooded, dried, and died…and then the copper thieves moved in…

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这些年来，我都快成专业宗教狂了，这倒奇怪了，我可是一向愤世嫉俗、性情乖戾的。这一切让我马马虎虎算是个典型的新奥尔良人。
有俗话说，新奥尔良的气息深入人当地人的骨髓。大体看来倒是的确如此，可也并非一概而论的。作者谢丽尔·瓦格纳离乡背井就是别无选择的。
好心的外地朋友打电话告诉我哪能免费搭车，还真有些可笑。奥斯丁市、阿什维尔市和波特兰总是我们理想中的世外桃源，我也说不清个所以然，只晓得那儿的人们大多是素食者。
书中故事个个令人烦扰，却又惊奇连连，作者回乡发现自己曾今的所爱如今已一团糟…她三年来坚决、荒谬又极具黑色幽默的旅行只为修补这一切。
如果十七岁那年我没搬去新奥尔良，而是像如今那些颇有远见和野心的穷姑娘那样跑去南部发展，住在纽约地铁口边上的小房子里，那么我现在就可能在屋后的阳台上无聊地等死，不过至少是平平安安的。
作者以真挚和风趣的语言在公共广播的《美国生活》节目中赢得了数以万计的倾听者。她与听众分享了自己在经历了重重波折后重塑生命的人生故事，内容独一无二，却又普遍存在…(SJN)

Awards/获奖情况：“This book would be heartbreaking if it weren’t so funny, so clear-eyed, and so beautifully fierce.”---James Whorton Jr., author of Frankland

“I love it…Floods, fires, hoboes, guns, murder, crawfish, gardens, disappointed Moms, boyfriend trouble, video game restorers and quite a few flat tires—it’s

“A wonderful, touching, thoughtful, crazy, loving book.”---Frederick Barthelme

“Wagner writes with honesty and humor.”---Annie Choi, author of Happy Birthday or Whatever

"Imagine if Jack Kerouac had lived through the flood and wrote you a long, personal letter from the wreckage."---Jonathan Goldstein, author of Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! and Host of CBC’s and PRI’s radio show WireTap

"Cheryl Wagner is at home on the death-defying tightrope between wise and wise-ass. Her voice is ironic and plaintive, surefooted and panicky, the combination that provides the thrills and elevates her memoir to a work of art, unsparing of everything, including itself."---Jack Pendarvis, author of Awesome

“此作文字风趣，思路明晰，故事美妙而深刻，隐含了淡淡的悲伤。”——James Whorton
“水灾、火灾、流浪者、枪支、谋杀、叛徒、花园、失意的母亲、恋爱问题、电子游戏修理人、还有漏气的轮胎，一切读来都让人爱不释手。真是一部精彩、感人、构思缜密、疯狂，而又饱含深情的佳作。”——Frederick Barthelme
“该作语言真挚又不乏幽默。”——Annie Choi
“只需想想Jack Kerouac经历了书中的水灾，在废墟中给你写一封厚厚的信。”——Jonathan Goldstein
“作者文笔有公然向死神挑衅之势，行文讽刺而带有忧伤，稳当又令人紧张，百感交集，使此部回忆录上升到艺术层次，并对所有一切做出了尖锐的批判。”——Jack Pendarvis

About the Author/作者介绍： Cheryl Wagner is a contributor to public radio’s This American Life, and her work has also been featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s The Current and Definitely Not the Opera. Her work has appeared in many print and online publications including Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Mississippi Review, and Five Dials in London. Her cover stories for The Times of Acadiana won first place for best continuing coverage of Hurricane Katrina or Rita from the Louisiana Press Association. A Louisiana native, she is a graduate of Tulane University and the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. She lives in New Orleans.

本书作者谢丽尔·瓦格纳，路易斯安那人，曾就读于图雷恩大学和密西西比东部大学作家学院，现居新奥尔良。公共广播公司《美国生活》节目供稿人。其作品曾于加拿大广播公司《如今》、《绝非歌剧》节目播出，并多次出版，在伦敦的Harper’s, McSweeney’s等网络上发行。为《阿卡迪亚人时代》创作的封面故事在路易斯安那联合报社蝉联最大报道量。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

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