A CALIFORNIA CHILDHOOD
Book ID/图书代码： 06568713B63787
English Summary/英文概要： In A California Childhood he plays with the concept of memoir through personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems, and stories. “I was born in 1978 at Stanford Hospital and spent my first eighteen years in a single house at the end of a cul-de-sac in Palo Alto,” Franco writes in his introduction. Steve Jobs’s daughter and the grandson of one of the Hewlett-Packard founders may have both been in his graduating class, but just across the freeway from his home turf lay East Palo Alto, which in 1992 had the highest murder rate per capita in the country. For Franco, the terrain of his upbringing is fraught with the complication of a city divided. But within that diversity, universal aspects of adolescence rise to the surface, and those are the subjects at the heart of Franco’s work.
Ultimately this is a portrait of a childhood brightened by California sunshine, but with trouble awaiting in the shadows. At turns funny, dark, and emotional, the journey of this book delivers an undeniable immediacy. And at the end the reader is left wondering just where the line of Franco’s art ends and where his true life begins.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这本书中，作者FRANCO通过系列图片，素描，涂鸦，诗歌和故事等方式生动描绘了自己在加州度过的童年生活。作者在介绍里这样写道：“我于1978年在斯坦福医院出生。18岁之前在加州帕罗奥多（它是美国加利福尼亚州圣塔克拉拉郡内的一座城市,位於旧金山湾区西南部,在山景城和门洛公园市中间,西方毗邻著名的斯坦福大学。）成长。我住在公路尽头的一座房子里。”乔布斯的女儿和惠普创始人之一的孙子曾经和我在一个班级里读书，然而，在帕罗奥多的东部，与我家仅隔一条高速公路，就是1992年全美谋杀率最高的地方。对FRANCO而言，正是这种童年生活的多样性，将他少年青春期的叛逆一览无遗，这也是弗兰科之后作品中永恒的主题。
总之，这本书不仅记载了一位充满阳光的加州少年的温馨成长经历，而且也揭露了社会中阴暗敏感的一面。本书不乏幽默，忧郁，以及情绪化的生活片段，是一部加州少年的成长之旅。读完本书后，读者会对FRANCO的艺术生涯以及真实生活产生好奇。(Susie)
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About the Author/作者介绍： JAMES FRANCO多才多艺，他是一位演员，导演，作家以及视觉艺术家。他担纲了多部电影的主角，包括：《米尔克》，《菠萝快车》，《哀嚎》和《127小时》，这些电影让他荣获奥斯卡奖的提名。他出版了《帕罗奥多故事集》，而且他的作品在多本著名杂志上发表过，诸如：《时尚先生》，《名利场》，《N+1》，《华尔街日报》和《麦克斯威尼》等等。他的画作在全世界范围内展览过，包括洛杉矶的现代艺术博物馆，德国柏林的佩雷斯艺术馆。James Franco is an actor, director, author, and visual artist. His film appearances include Milk, Pineapple Express, Howl, and 127 Hours, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. He is the author of the collection Palo Alto, and his writing has been published in Esquire, Vanity Fair, N+1, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney’s. Franco’s art has been exhibited throughout the world including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s PS1 in New York, the Clocktower Gallery in New York, and the Peres Projects in Berlin. He lives in New York City.
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