THE BAG LADY PAPERS: THE PRICELESS EXPERIENCE OF LOSING IT ALL

Book ID/图书代码： 04300009B31407

English Summary/英文概要： How do you pick yourself up after the one thing you most feared happens to you? Alexandra Penney’s revealing, spirited, and ultimately redemptive true story shows us how.

Throughout her life, Alexandra Penney’s worst fear was of becoming a bag lady. Even as she worked several jobs while raising a son as a single mother, wrote a bestselling advice book, and became editor in chief of Self magazine, she was haunted by the image of herself alone, bankrupt, and living on the street. She even went to therapy in an attempt to alleviate the worry that all she had worked for could crumble.

And then, one day, that’s exactly what happened.

Penney had taken a friend’s advice and invested nearly everything she had ever earned--all of her savings--with Bernie Madoff. One day she was successful and wealthy; the next she had almost nothing. Suddenly, at an age when many Americans retire, Penney saw her worst nightmares coming true. Based on her popular blog posts on The Daily Beast, this memoir chronicles Penney’s struggle to cope with the devastating financial and emotional fallout of being cheated out of her life savings and illuminates her journey back to sanity, solvency, and security.

"I will work harder than I ever have before--which was pretty hard indeed--and see what happens. I have the feeling something good will come of it: tough, challenging work and laserlike focus have always paid off for me. . . . Was it better to have it and then lose it? Yes, yes, yes! Even though I lived with horrible bag lady fears of losing it all, now that those financial fears have materialized, I’m in pretty good shape and looking to what’s next. Experiences--good and bad, exciting and boring, tragic and absurd--make up a life. Not to have lived to the fullest is the saddest, most irresponsible life I can think of."

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/madoff-victim-writes-about-rebuilding-life-finances/19354140/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-17/the-bag-lady-papers/

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 假如一夜之間銀行的存款只剩一分錢會是什麼心情？

感人勵志之作，相信此書能給深陷危機中的人帶去一盞明燈，一絲希望！
假如一夜之間銀行的存款只剩一分錢會是什麼心情？自殺，還是振作起來呢？
Alexandra Penney一生中最害怕的事就是變成個一無所有的拾荒女(bag lady)。這位需要撫養兒子的單身母親，同時作好幾份工作，曾寫了一本百萬暢銷書，也成為SELF雜誌的總編，但腦海裡總有一種奇怪的念頭一直折磨著自己，像是噩夢般看到自己走向破產一途，無家可歸住，為此她還曾求助醫師的治療。然而，某天擔心的事情終於發生了。她聽了一位朋友的話，把一生所有積蓄都投資給了Bernard Madoff。
THE BAG LADY PAPER是本令人振奮和深受啟發的書，講述了作者在面臨毀滅性的金融危機中透過奮鬥使自己得到了昇華，也表現出了真正機智和勇敢。當你的噩夢真的出現了要怎麼做呢？跟著Penny你將會找到答案。(WZ & VL)

Awards/获奖情况：此书这周将由美国最大的出版社之一Hyperion出版发行！

About the Author/作者介绍： Alexandra Penney is an artist, bestselling author, and former editor in chief of Self magazine. She had a one-person show at Galerie Haas & Fuchs in Berlin, and her work was shown at Miami’s Art Basel. She lives in New York.
Alexandra Penney為一名藝術工作者，前SELF雜誌的總編。曾在「邁阿密藝術中心」及德國柏林Galerie Haas & Fuchs等知名藝廊開過個展。目前居住在美國紐約。

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