BEAUTIFUL UNBROKEN: ONE NURSE’S LIFE

Book ID/图书代码： 02330010B42541

English Summary/英文概要： As a child, Mary Jane Nealon dreams of growing up to become a saint or, failing that, a nurse. She idolizes Clara Barton, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Molly Pitcher, whose biographies she reads and rereads. But by the time she follows her calling to nursing school, her beloved younger brother is diagnosed with cancer, which challenges her to bring hope and healing closer to home. His death leaves her shattered, and she flees into her work, and into poetry. Beautiful Unbroken details Nealon’s life of caregiving, from her years as a flying nurse, untethered and free to follow friends and jobs from the Southwest to Savannah, to more somber years in New York City, treating men in a homeless shelter on the Bowery and working in the city’s first AIDS wards. In this compelling and revealing memoir, Nealon brings a poet’s sensitivity to bear on the hard truths of disease and recovery, life and death.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 还是个孩子的时候，玛丽就梦想着长大以后成为一名圣徒或者护士。她崇拜克拉拉•巴顿（Clara Barton）等人，将他们的自传读了又读。然而当她带着夙愿进入护士学校以后，她的弟弟查出得了癌症，使她不得不中止学习回家。可是，她弟弟还是死了，这给了她很大打击，她开始将自己沉浸工作和诗歌之中，以求得到慰藉。本书详细记录了作者的护士生涯和所见所闻所感所受，并且以其细腻的笔触公之于众，发人深省。(兼职翻译-XJJ)

Awards/获奖情况：The range of topics covered in memoirs enthralls me and could make for some hot summer reading. This month offers highlights from Wall Street, the suburban side of sexual kinks, poetry in healing, and hilarity found in everyday life. I’m finding more I enjoy in memoir purely for this depth and breadth. Pay special attention to Nealon—she’s a keeper.By Julie Kane Jun 2, 2011 Library Journal

“Simultaneously an elegiac memoir and a sparkling prose-poem.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A beautifully told examination of a caretaking life.... I desperately wish skilled poets like Nealon wrote at least half of all memoirs. This is to be savored. There are meditations on life, death, leaving, returning, growing, healing; I will reread it.” – Library Journal (starred review)

“With a seasoned nurse’s practicality and a poet’s skill with words, Nealon relates her escape from personal tragedy by treating patients near death…. Evocatively told, Nealon’s stirring story provides insight into the small acts that ease great pain.” – Publishers Weekly

“It is tempting to relax and allow the music of Nealon’s prose to carry one’s mind lightly over the gentle caress of her words and phrases.... But to do so would be to miss the raw power of her story…. This is no ordinary medical memoir about the grueling journey through school, midnight shifts on wards, and encounters with dying patients. It is a song to caregiving.” – Booklist

"Mary Jane Nealon’s gorgeous, riveting memoir about her life as a nurse pulls you in tight from the first page and doesn’t let go." – Marie Claire Magazine

“BEAUTIFUL UNBROKEN’ convinces us that nurses, whose daily lives are steeped in both suffering and compassion, are in a unique position to pose such questions. It makes us wish for more literature by nurses - especially by this one.” – Boston Globe

“This is a riveting autobiography, a heartrending glimpse of living among the dying. I finished the book in about two sittings and had the urge to call the author and demand that she tell me more.” – Missoula Independent

About the Author/作者介绍： 玛丽•简•妮瑢（MARY JANE NEALON），2010Breadloaf Writers Conference非小说金奖得主。这本自传体小说，记录了她将近三十年的流动护士生涯，潸然泪下，感人肺腑，处处彰显着白衣天使的美德和使命。诚如作者所述，徘徊在生死边缘的时候是最能体现一个人的本性和能力的时刻。她以优雅的散文配以独到的见解娓娓向我们道来。

The 2010 winner of Breadloaf Writers Conference Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, this memoir chronicles almost thirty years of working as an “itinerant” nurse. Her story is a moving and memorable account of what the caregiver risks by witnessing and caring for the seriously ill and what gifts such work brings. As the author shows, these lessons of life and death shape our character and ability to treat one another with grace. In caring for so many patients over the years, Mary Jane Nealon has carried the burden and the privilege of their stories. Her memoir is a sharing of those stories with empathy and insight and told in graceful prose that allows for mystery, the spiritual, and the blessedly poetic.

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