CRAZY U: ONE DAD’S CRASH COURSE IN GETTING HIS KID INTO COLLEGE
Book ID/图书代码： 12300010B43599
English Summary/英文概要： The cutthroat competition to get into the perfect college can drive students to the brink of madness and push their parents over the edge—and bury them in an avalanche of books that claim to hold the secret of success. Don’t worry: Crazy U is not one of those books. It is instead a disarmingly candid and hilariously subversive chronicle of the journey that millions of parents and their children undertake each year—a journey through the surreal rituals of college admissions. It’s a rollicking ride from the man Christopher Buckley has called “my all-time favorite writer.”
Pummeled by peers, creeped out by counselors, and addled by advice books, Andrew Ferguson has come to believe that a single misstep could cost his son a shot at a happy and fulfilling future. He feels the pressure to get it right from the moment the first color brochures land in his mailbox, sent from colleges soliciting customers as though they were sailors come to port.
First is a visit with the most sought-after, most expensive—and surely most intimidating—private college consultant in the nation. Then come the steps familiar to parents and their college-bound children, seen through a gimlet eye: a session with a distracted high school counselor, preparations for the SAT and an immersion in its mysteries, unhelpful help from essay coaches and admissions directors, endless campus tours, and finally, as spring arrives, the waiting, waiting, waiting for the envelope that bears news of the future.
Meanwhile, Ferguson passes on the tips he’s picked up during their crash course. (Tip number 36: Don’t apply for financial aid after midnight.) He provides a pocket history of higher education in America, recounts the college ranking wars, and casts light on the obscure and not-terribly-seemly world of higher-education marketing. And he dares to raise the question that no one (until now) has been able to answer: Why on earth does it all cost so much? Along the way, something unexpected begins to happen: a new relationship grows between father and son, built from humor, loyalty, and (yes) more than a little shared anxiety. For all its tips and trials, Crazy U is also a story about family. It turns out that the quiet boy who pretends not to be worried about college has lots to teach his father—about what matters in life, about trusting your instincts, about finding your own way. In launching his son into the world...(unfinished)
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 竞争激烈，又想让孩子步入理想大学，这不仅把孩子逼到崩溃的边缘， 更是早就让家长绝望之下决定奋力一搏----在孩子的书桌前堆出小山状的所谓蕴含了成功秘籍的书籍和参考资料。无需担心，《疯狂老爸》绝不是如上所提的那些书其中之一。相反，这是一本可以消除你所有疑惑的坦诚书籍，同时对这一每年都有千百万家长和子女经历的痛苦之旅---争夺大学入取通知的超现实仪式之旅，本书则提出了轻松愉快且极具颠覆性的见解。克里斯托弗•巴克利称品读该书是一次极度愉悦的经历，该书作者也是他一直以来都很钟爱的。受到同龄人欺侮，被指导老师赶出来，被现下的各式指导书弄得茫然不知所措，安德鲁•弗格森突然意识到哪怕走错一小步，儿子快乐和充实的未来都会缺失一些东西。当第一封来自大学的彩色小宣传册落进他们家信箱时，他仿若看到水手恳求着进入港口，也正是此时此刻，他强烈的感到自己需要做些什么来改变这一现状。首先，他去拜访了国内最受欢迎，最贵，也最让人望而却步的私立大学问询处。然后就到了家长和考生最为熟悉的环节---睁大眼睛，发出敏锐的目光，好好选择：与早已为升学忙的头昏脑胀的中学咨询老师会谈，准备学术评估测试，并从此沉浸在其所谓的神秘之下，论文老师以及招生主任形式上的指导帮助，无止境的校园参观之旅，最后，春天来临之际，就只剩下等待了，等待那个满载着未来的小信封。这里，弗格森就速成课程给了我们一些建议：（第36条建议：永远不要在凌晨声情学费减免）。他扼要的向我们阐述了美国高等教育历史，详述高校排名之争，使我们对不算太糟的高等学府情况有了基本认知。此外，他敢于提出至今尚无人能答的问题：学费究竟为何这么贵？而有些改变也在潜移默化中发生着，父子之间开始建立起全新的关系，幽默，忠诚，而非以前那种共同的忧虑。尽管充满了各种建议和实验，本书还是一个家庭故事集----事实证明，那些平时安静，佯装不在乎升学的孩子们，其实也有许多可以教父母的，如生活中真正重要的事，相信直觉，招待自己的路。从而使得父亲们能更好地理解孩子，送孩子们通往更为美好的前程。。。。。。（未完）(兼职翻译DC)
Awards/获奖情况：来源于<<出版者周刊>> 弗格森，《标准周刊》编辑，以回忆录形式幽默地记载了儿子申请大学的这一路历程。作为一名没有做太多准备的老爸，弗格森在试图搞清弯弯绕绕的教育制度时，还是展示出了他过人的智慧和调查水平。此后，弗格残参与讨论了诸多问题，从学校今后的规模到在美国新闻与世界报上排名如何，再到美国高等教育历史全貌。挖掘过程中，弗格森通道了众多支持或批判学术评估测试的声音，日日蹿升的大学开销是如何制造出属于他们的泡沫经济，为何三分之二的新生的新生欢迎仪式会作为会爆满。而学生重考学术评估测试的那一刻，看上去尽管有点好笑，却远非本书的终结，而是我们可以从中看出父子俩在努力敲开大学门的同时，似乎也一起学到了些什么。(5月)(c)所有版权归PWXYZ 所有。
About the Author/作者介绍： 安德鲁斯•弗格森，《标准周刊》资深编辑，著有散文集《傻人的名字》《傻人的脸》，大草原州，《华尔街日报》称其为年度最受欢迎畅销书。先前任《华盛顿人》杂志资深作家，曾对《时代》杂志做出巨大贡献，《财富》，电视导购，《福布斯》，《国家书评》，《彭博》等专栏作家为《纽约人》《华盛顿邮报》《美国观察家》《洛杉矶时报》等许多报刊出版物专栏作家。1992年白宫发言该撰写人，效命于乔治•布什。现居华盛顿郊区，同妻子和两个孩子同住。 Andrew Ferguson, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard, is the author of Fools’ Names, Fools’ Faces, a collection of essays, and Land of Lincoln, named by the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune as a Favorite Book of the Year. Formerly a senior writer for the Washingtonian magazine, he has been a contributing editor to Time magazine, as well as a columnist for Fortune, TV Guide, Forbes FYI, National Review, Bloomberg News, and Commentary. He has also written for the New Yorker, New York magazine, the New Republic, the American Spectator, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many other publications. In 1992, he was a White House speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush. He lives in suburban Washington, D.C., with his wife and two children.
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