THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON: A GRAPHIC NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 11186010B34484
English Summary/英文概要： The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who ages in reverse: He is born seventy years old and becomes younger as the years progress. This faithful graphic-novel adaptation chronicles Benjamin Button’s many adventures: He falls in love with a woman who ages normally (this causes complications), starts a family, and establishes a successful business. In his later years, he attends Harvard and plays on their football team. By the time he is an old man, Benjamin Button resembles a baby. ’And then he remembered nothing. Through the noons and nights he breathed and over him there were soft mumblings and murmurings that he scarcely heard, and faintly differentiated smells, and light and darkness.’
The film adaptation of the story starring Brad Pitt (as Benjamin Button) and directed by David Fincher (who also directed Pitt in Fight Club and Seven) opens on December 19, 2008. This adaptation will allow fans of the film to experience the original source material in a fresh and fun graphic-novel format.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 全球首本圖文小說 時光飛逝，卻不知這條長河源起何處，所有人皆順流而下，唯有他獨自逆流而上
本繪圖小說改編自費茲傑羅的短篇小說，詳實記述班傑明·巴頓所經歷的不同人生軌跡。
班傑明出身時便是一幅古稀老人的模樣，20歲的時候看起來像個五六十歲老頭，並愛上一個
同齡的女性。戀人隨著歲月蒼老，班傑明卻只能逆著時間的長河越變越年輕。
從1918年第一次世界大戰末到科技發達的21世紀，時間的變遷並未在他臉上留下足跡，而是徒留下許
多的遺憾 ......這部小說於2008年12月19日被成功搬上螢幕。該片由知名導演大衛·芬奇操刀監製，
片中主角班傑明則由著名男星Brad Pitt飾演。(AW & KC)
Awards/获奖情况：美國圖書館協會2010年度青少年最佳繪圖小說提名
Italian: Ugo Guanda Editore; Korean: Woongjin Think Big Co., Ltd; Portuguese (Brazil): Ediouro Publicações; Spanish: Gadir Editorial; Czech: Zoner Press s.r.o.
The impending release of a movie version starring Brad Pitt has made this humorous tale, formerly among the least known of Fitzgerald’s short stories, a hot property. DeFillippis and Weir’s adaptation preserves the original’s straight-faced tone describing the career of a man who begins life in his 70s and grows progressively younger. If bystanders find this more than curious, they usually are just irritated at Benjamin for not behaving like other people. He himself is surprised as his body morphs, but is always open to new possibilities; his good-natured adaptability gives the social satire a gentle edge. Readers should, of course, look up Fitzgerald’s original, but there’s much to enjoy in this handsome little hardbound book. Cornell’s sepia watercolor panels are especially clever at showing physical and emotional changes as Benjamin moves backward through life while America rolls forward for 70 years. A useful, gracefully written afterword by Donald G. Sheehy, professor of English, completes the volume nicely. (Oct.) ---From Publishers Weekly
More than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story.---Mark Caldwell, The Philadelphia Inquirer
About the Author/作者介绍： 作者F·斯科特·費茲傑羅(F. Scott Fitzgerald)，筆下著有"了不起的蓋茨比/大亨小傳"(The Great Gatsby)、"夜色溫柔"(Tender Is the Night)等多部名著。
凱文·康奈爾(Kevin Cornell)，知名插畫家兼設計師。
奴涅茲·德菲利皮斯(Nunzio DeFilippis)及克莉絲蒂娜·維爾(Christina Weir)，曾參與許多動漫製作，包括有Wonder Woman,新X戰警(New X-Men)與超人歷險記(Adventures of Superman).
Format:全彩四色
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