BREAKING OUT OF BEDLAM: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 14935512B58514
English Summary/英文概要： Cora Sledge is horrified when her children, who doubt her ability to take care of herself, plot to remove her from her home. So what if her house is a shambles? Who cares when she last changed her clothes? If an 82-year-old widow wants to live on junk food, pills, and cigarettes, hasn’t she earned the right? When her kids force her into The Palisades, an assisted living facility, Cora takes to her bed, planning to die as soon aspossible. But life isn’t finished with her yet; in fact, far from it.
Deciding that truth is the best revenge, Corabegins to write a tell-all journal that reveals once and for all the secret she has guarded since she was a young woman. In entries that are at once profane, profound, and gossipy, she chronicles her childhood in rural Missouri, her shotgun wedding, and the terrible event that changed the course of her life.
Breaking Out of Bedlam captures the loneliness and secrets that lurk within families, the hardscrabble reality facing women with limited resources, and the resilience of a woman who survives, despite all the odds, through an unlikely combination of passion, humor, and faith.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Cora Sledge一個人住在家裡，憑垃圾食品、藥丸和吸煙度日。孩子們擔心她上了年紀，不能自理，打算讓她住到“The Palisades”養老院去。為此，Cora想要結束自己的生命，但一切還遠沒那麼容易。
爲了報復，Cora決定把自己生命的真相和一生守護的秘密公佈於眾。
故事的開頭總是俗氣、八卦的。她從自己在密蘇裡郊區度過的童年寫起，訴說了自己被包辦的婚姻以及那件改變她人生軌跡的事情。
在她的回憶中，還夾雜著她在養老院度過的日日夜夜，為一位彬彬有禮的紳士情竇初開，和鄰桌爭鬥結怨，與照顧她的護工節起了戰鬥同志關係，還有那疑似謀殺案的案件，讓每個人坐立不安，人人自危。當Cora的回憶和現處的陰謀咬合在一起時，便是小說的高潮。
Cora時而憤怒、時而不恭、時而有趣。雖然生活處處都有不公和困窘，她仍然不想步入老年，仍然好奇、喜歡冒險，想要嘗鮮……
《飛越養老院》體現了家庭中常有的孤獨和秘密，中下層婦女面臨的窘境，以及女性面對困難時表現出的堅韌、熱情、幽默和信念。
Awards/获奖情况：“Leslie Larson給一個82歲的老太太袒露自己愛和生命的權利。作者將主人公的過去和現在交織到一起，呈現了一個有趣、真實、感人的小說。”——《波士頓環球報》
“讓人震撼的小說！”——《紐約時報》
“很有趣的一本書！Cora的心機時而狡猾，時而好奇，但總是很有趣。她暴躁的脾氣讓她越發幽默。”——《出版商週刊》
“有趣、溫馨還有一點點感傷。”——《Kirkus Reviews》
“A kick.” New York Times
“Delightful…Plenty of heart and humor.” Publishers Weekly
“A good read: funny, sad and easy.” San Francisco Chronicle
“A funny, touching novel. Larson has given her [protagonist] an audacious and memorable voice.” Boston Globe
“Profane, harrowing, comical.” AARP Magazine
About the Author/作者介绍： Leslie出生於工薪階層，曾在出版社工作。現在擔任自由撰稿人。她為各行各業寫不同文書，同時，寫各種短篇小說和評論文章。她的文章登在《Faultline》、《the East Bay Express》、《the Women’s Review of Books》和《Fiction Monthly》。Leslie的小說關心平凡的人，因此通俗易懂，平易近人。她精巧的結構框架和嫺熟的寫作技巧使得每一個人物都躍然紙上。無論是《Breaking Out of Bedlam》中的Cora,還是《Slipstream》中為新生活不斷掙紮的人物都讓你能想到自己身邊的親人或朋友。她的兩本著作《Breaking Out of Bedlam》和《Slipstream》在美國和法國都大受歡迎，成為法國暢銷榜單前十位。她的論文還獲得了鄧普頓獎。The New York Times called Leslie Larson’s second novel, Breaking Out of Bedlam, "A kick." Publishers Weekly said, "Delightful...Plenty of heart and humor." And the San Francisco Chronicle called it "A good read: funny, sad and easy." Leslie’s critically acclaimed first novel, Slipstream, was a BookSense Notable Book, a Target Breakout Book, winner of the Astraea Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her work has appeared in Faultline, the East Bay Express, Writer magazine, and the Women’s Review of Books, among other publications. She has taught writing at the Macondo Writers Workshop, San Diego Writers Ink, and Book Passage.
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