WITH OR WITHOUT YOU: A MEMOIR (THE PRETENDERS)

Book ID/图书代码： 08260011B46435

English Summary/英文概要： Domenica grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts in a ramshackle, run down, trash filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin. The memoir starts with the flat anomie of a kid who didn’t fit in, was far smarter and worse dressed than everyone else, and clearly had the most flamboyant mother of anyone in town. As the narrative progresses, the writing becomes rich with the meaning and revelations of early adulthood that dawns on Domenica. It is a thoroughly textured and masterfully written book, weaving in and out of time, layered with characters, finally ending with Domenica saving herself by severing her relationship with her mother, the hardest thing she’s ever done. The book is dedicated to her mother, which readers will understand by the time they reach the last pages. That’s because the book is, in the end, a love story, and that love endures.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我從小住在一個髒亂、破舊的房子，由毒販母親用止痛藥扶養我長大…

作者Domenica從小住在一個髒亂、破舊的房子，由毒販母親以一種名為Oxycontin的止痛藥扶養長大。她在鎮上永遠是同年齡中最突出的一位，除了因為自己身上突兀的穿著打扮外，她的母親所出的「風頭」更讓她不受矚目也難。但天資聰敏的她似乎知道如何偽裝自己，設法讓人無法透自己，保有原來的自我。她開始潛入在文字創作中，並在其中開拓自己的天地。寫作讓她獲得真正的呼吸！當然，她還是需要面對現實中的問題來源 – 她的母親，她們關係是該就此放棄或該讓它持續下去？不管作者最後做出怎樣的決定，她將這本書獻給她的母親！(Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：“Freakishly brilliant, brilliantly freakish, this is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. Domenica Ruta has done something every artist with a failed family must do. She has created herself.” –Gary Shteyngart

“In the world of memoir, Mary Karr’s and Geoffrey Wolff’s exceptional books burn and brighten, like actual stars among strings of tinsel. With or Without You is like that. I will read whatever Domenica Ruta writes.” –Amy Bloom

“‘Make it new,’ Ezra Pound directed, and Domenica Ruta has. Difficult childhoods are plentiful, the talent to transform adversity into art in short supply. Unflinching in its regard, forgiving in its humor, With or Without You is that rare thing, a story you think you know transformed into one you have to read to the end.” –Kathryn Harrison

Rights sold:
China, traditional (complex) characters / Business Weekly Publications
Australia/New Zealand / HarperCollins Australia
Brazil / Benvirá/Editora Saraiva

About the Author/作者介绍： Domenica Ruta is a true literary talent, and has been recognized and celebrated for it each step of the way. Born in 1979, she was awarded a scholarship to Andover, a scholarship to Oberlin, a semester stint at the Tisch School for the Arts, and a fellowship at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin, where she received an MFA in 2008.
She was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature with a financial grant of $17,000, and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, Jentel and Hedgebrook.
Her short fiction has been published in Epoch and the Indiana Review.
She has also worked as a nanny, a dementia caregiver at a nursing home, a housecleaner, a bartender, a videographer, and a domestic violence hotline service provider, among other jobs.
She currently spends her time writing her novel and walking her dog, a dachshund mix named Zazy.
Domenica Ruta生於1979年。從事過各式各樣工作，如保母、看護、清潔工、接線生等，但她在文學創作的路上一直受到多方的肯定，有許多大學提供她獎學金攻讀學位及投入寫作。她的短篇故事曾在Epoch及the Indiana Review的刊物登載，作品曾入圍Keene文學獎的決選名單。

Format:电子手稿

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

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