FAILURE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Book ID/图书代码： 12411009B33633
English Summary/英文概要： This witty, provocative, and utterly honest exploration of the personal landscape of failure in a larger philosophical context will change the way readers view their own lives. The author’s own struggles are chronicled, from trying to fit in at his posh prep school, to dealing with his rejection from Harvard, to making peace with his failure as an academic, and betraying his beloved wife after she was diagnosed with cancer. By breaking his silence and examining his own enduring sense of failure, he confronts the terrifying fear of failure—a universal feeling everyone can relate to.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 虽说是自由作家，依然不缺乏专业底子的《老女孩》（The Old Girl）作者吉丁（Gidding）这一次用“失败”作抢眼的标题以及自述型的章节安排，许诺这是一次对“失败”的案例研究，它不止是典型的自传。但是，吉丁事实上用了一种低沉的调调描述了许多他自认为的失败经历。他的故事里唯一正面的光环是他的至爱，死于癌症的妻子的不离不弃，但他却因在她疾病期间无聊而与前女友在网路上调情而自责。
本书语言风趣，内容发人深省，真实的交代了作者本人的真实失败经历，能够给读者以借鉴，不犯同样的错误。作者的挣扎和努力是按时间顺序排列的，从他努力适应学前班，如何处理被哈佛拒之门外的心情，如何将失败变成学术研究以及当妻子确诊罹患癌症自己如何背弃她的过程。作者打破沉默，一一审视了煎熬的失败感，勇敢地面对了我们都畏之三分的失败。(XJJ)
Awards/获奖情况："Outing himself as a failure, Gidding outs all of us. But what a pleasure it is."---Sven Birkerts, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer, Harvard University, and author, The Gutenberg Elegies (“吉丁要是失败者的话，我们都是了。但是若能当个像他似的“失败者”也不错！”---斯文•贝克特（Sven Birkerts）哈佛大学讲师及《古登堡挽歌》（The Gutenberg Elegies）作者)
"This is that rarest of original productions: a book that opens its heart to us so we may understand our own."---James R. Kincaid, professor of English, University of Southern California, and coauthor, A History of the African American People by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid (A Novel) (“像这样一本对我们开诚布公且能让我们更好理解自己的书可遇不可求。”---詹姆斯•R•金蔡德（James R. Kincaid） 南加州大学英语教授)
"Gidding writes with extraordinary wit and style. . . . All should hasten to read this book." ---Peter Stansky, professor of history, Stanford University, and author, On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World (“吉丁的文风睿智有个性…每个人都应该一读。”---彼得•斯坦斯基（Peter Stansky） 斯坦福大学历史教授)
"Witty, humorous, insightful, ironic, ingenious, self-indulgent, probing, sad, and always well-written."---Richard E. Matlak, professor of English, Holy Cross, and author, The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800 (“诙谐、幽默、观察入微、讽刺、机灵、自我放纵、悲伤，作者总是写得很好。”---理查德•E•马特拉克（Richard E. Matlak）圣十字英语教授)
About the Author/作者介绍： Josh Gidding has taught writing and literature at the University of Southern California, Holy Cross, and Dowling College on Long Island, where he is currently an associate professor of English, and is the author of The Old Girl. He lives in Huntington Station, New York.
乔希•吉丁（Josh Gidding）在南加州大学、圣十字教授写作和文学，近来他在位于长岛的道林大学任英语副教授。他是《老女孩》（Old Girl）的作者，住在纽约亨廷顿。
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