GROWING UP

Book ID/图书代码： 03890004B06195

English Summary/英文概要： Russell Baker is the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner for Distinguished Commentary and a columnist for The New York Times. This book traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia.

When Baker was only five, his father died. His mother, strong-willed and matriarchal, never looked back. After all, she had three children to raise.

These were depression years, and Mrs. Baker moved her fledgling family to Baltimore. Baker’s mother was determined her children would succeed, and we know her regimen worked for Russell. He did everything from delivering papers to hustling subscriptions for the Saturday Evening Post. As is often the case, early hardships made the man.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是美国著名记者、新闻评论家、作家罗素•贝克1983年所写的自传体小说，出版后连续72周高居畅销书排行榜前列，先后被多个国家翻译引进，直至今天仍然在全球各地畅销，总发行量已超过了220万册，创下了美国出版史上的一个奇迹。
罗素•贝克用朴实、幽默睿智的文字向我们讲述了一个单亲家庭中的小男孩在好强的母亲的教育下成长成才的故事。
书中有好强而慈爱的母亲、大胆而热情的小妹妹和令人敬畏的祖母，当然也有校园里可爱的老师、受到同学欺负的学生以及日常生活中形形色色满腔热情面对艰难时世的小人物……虽然全书以上世纪二三十年代经济大萧条的美国为背景，但书中所反馈出的问题仍然是当今为人父母和为人子女的人们所共同面对的。在感受贝克的幽默与智慧的同时，我们很容易在其中找到自己的影子。
书中每一页都会带给人惊喜——一句俏皮话或是不动声色的幽默，都会给你带来启迪。毫无疑问这是一本影响了20世纪并将在21世纪继续产生重大影响的好书。(RH)

Awards/获奖情况：这是本年度我读过最好的书！这是一本无与伦比的美国回忆录。---JOHN CHANCELLOR,NBC
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

"The best book I’ve read this year. As an American memoir, it is just unbeatable!"---JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC

"LOVELY HAUNTING PROSE.... RUSSELL BAKER’S STORY IS THE STUFF OF AMERICAN LEGEND.... He moves beyond the boundaries of his newspaper column to establish a place for this book among the most enduring recollections of American boyhoods-those of Thurber and Menchen, Aldrich and Twain."---JONATHAN YARDLEY, THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

About the Author/作者介绍： 他是美国著名记者和专栏作家，在美国有“当代马克吐温”之称。1947年，他受雇于《巴尔的摩太阳报》1954年加入《纽约时报》负责报道白宫，国会和其他国家政治新闻。1962年到1998年期间，贝克长期为《纽约时报》和《观察家》栏目写专栏，长期评论国政。1979年，他以其文笔犀利睿智的政府评论文章获得普利策评论奖。其自传体小说《成长》为他赢得了1983年的普利策传记文学奖。该书出版后曾连续72周高居美国畅销书排行前列，并翻译为多种文字，在全球畅销，总发行量超过220万册，创造了美国发行历史的一个奇迹。
1989年，他出版了他的另一部传记《黄金时代》。迄今为止，罗素贝克一共出版了17部书。此外他还担任过普利策奖的评委！
Russell Baker has been charming readers for years with his astute political commentary and biting cerebral wit. The noted journalist, humorist, essayist, and biographer has written or edited seventeen books, and was the author of the nationally syndicated "Observer" column for the New York Times from 1962 to 1998. Called by Robert Sherrill of the Washington Post Book Word, "the supreme satirist of this half-century," Baker is most famous for turning the daily gossip of most newspapers into the stuff of laugh-out-loud literature. John Skow of Time described Baker’s work as "funny, but full of the pain and absurdity of the age. . .he can write with a hunting strain of melancholy, with delight, or...with shame or outrage." Baker received his first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1979, in recognition of his "Observer" column.
Baker received his second Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for his autobiography, Growing Up (1983). With a moving mix of humor and sadness, Baker insightfully recounts the struggles he and his mother endured in depression-era Virginia, New Jersey, and Baltimore after his father passed away. The book’s greatest achievement is Baker’s portrayal of his mother, a driven woman haunted by poverty and dreams of her son’s success. "I would make something of myself," he wrote, "and if I lacked the grit to do it, well then she would make me make something of myself." Mary Lee Settle of the Los Angeles Times Book Review called Growing Up "a wondrous book, funny, sad, and strong. . .(with scenes) "as funny and touching as Mark Twain’s." Jonathan Yardley of Washington Post Book World declared that "Baker has accomplished the memoirists’s task: to find shape and meaning in his own life, and to make it interesting and pertinent to the reader. In lovely, haunting prose, he has told a story that is deeply in the American grain."
In addition to his regular column and numerous books, Baker has also edited the anthologies, The Norton Book of Light Verse (1986) and Russell Baker’s Book of American Humor (1993). Since 1993, he has been the regular host of the PBS television series Masterpiece Theatre. Baker is a regular contributor to national periodicals such as The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Saturday Evening Post, and McCalls. One of his columns, How to Hypnotize Yourself into Forgetting the Vietnam War, was dramatized and filmed by Eli Wallach for PBS.

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