BY THE IOWA SEA: A MEMOIR OF DISASTER AND LOVE
Book ID/图书代码： 06830111B48893
English Summary/英文概要： Joe Blair always had big plans. As a child, he would lie on his bed and study the Easy Rider poster stapled to his wall, dreaming of the day he could wear a leather jacket and be free. In his early twenties, he and his new bride jumped on a motorcycle and rode across America to chase their destiny.
Fifteen years later, Joe finds himself in Iowa, working as a heating and air conditioning repairman who reluctantly owns a house, two cars, and a dog. His marriage is failing, and his four children—one of whom is severely autistic—are struggling. "Our history," he writes, "gains more weight day by day. And the future seems more and more unlikely to be anything cool at all." Joe believes it would take an act of great faith or courage to revive in him the hope and passion that once seemed so easy to come by. What it takes, he discovers, is a flood.
With a genuine narrative voice like Rick Bragg’s and the raw, emotional power of Rafe Yglesias’s novel, A Happy Marriage, this is a wrenching, unsentimental account an ordinary man’s struggle to live an authentic life. Joe Blair lays bare the heartbreaking and hopeful story of a river that became an ocean and of a great love that was lost and then found again, By the Iowa Sea
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我迷失所以才能體會存在的美好… Joe Blair從小就常躺在床上望著牆上的電影Easy Rider（《逍遙騎士》是部經典的美國公路電影）的海報，夢想自己有天也能穿著皮衣在廣闊的道路上狂奔。
不久後，就在他20幾歲時，和剛新婚的妻子率性的跳上摩托車，展開他們美國公路逐夢之旅…
15年後，Joe居住在愛荷華州Iowa，從事冷暖氣的維修工作，勉強能養家餬口。但此時他的婚姻已面臨瓦解，加上四個小孩中一名有嚴重的泛自閉症，這一切讓他心力交瘁…他在日記寫到：「隨著體重日與遽增，未來似乎越來越不再令人感到期待及興奮。」
但是Joe深信自己能重新找回對生命的希望及熱情，儘管這感覺常來來去去，就像洪水般來的快去的快…(Vincent)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Joe Blair is a pipefitter who lives in Coralville, Iowa with his wife and four children. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Iowa Review. www.joeblairwriter.com
Joe Blair目前從事管線維修工作，與妻子及四個小孩住在愛荷華州的Coralville。他的散文隨筆曾刊登在《紐約時報》、《基督教科學箴言報》及《愛荷華評論報》。
Format:电子手稿
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