THE GOOD LUCK CAT: HOW A CAT SAVED A FAMILY, AND A FAMILY SAVED A CAT

Book ID/图书代码： 05170014B68589

English Summary/英文概要： Lissa Warren’s father needed a retirement companion while his wife and daughter were at work. Enter Ting, a seven-pound Korat who changed his life, and the life of the family. All kittens are mischievous, but Ting--the cat grenade-- was real trouble. She was also smart, endearing, and the soul of the Warren family.

In late 2008, Lissa’s father died of a heart attack. The images from that night still haunt her. Less than a year later, Lissa and her mother stared at another EKG readout, this time for Ting. A living feline extension of the man they missed so much--the man they had tried, but failed, to save--she was diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition. The only option was to have a human pacemaker implanted in the cat, a procedure even the best animal hospital in Boston hadn’t performed in a decade. Determined not to lose another family member, they embarked on a medical odyssey on behalf of the gray cat who had been her father’s shadow--a journey that would prepare one of them for her own serious diagnosis.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 丽莎•华伦的父亲需要一名退休伴侣，因为他的妻子和女儿都需要工作。一只7磅重的科拉特猫安特•汀不仅改变了他的生活，还改变了他们全家人的生活。所有的猫咪都是淘气的，然而汀---猫咪中的手榴弹---绝对是个真正的小麻烦精。她聪明而讨人喜欢，可以说是华伦一家的灵魂人物。2008年末，丽莎的父亲死于突发心脏病。那一夜的画面至今仍时常萦绕于她的眼前。然而就在不到一年的时间里，丽莎和母亲不得不再次紧盯着另一个心电图的读数器，只不过这一次是为了猫咪汀。这只活着的猫咪是那名他们思念不已的男人生命的延续---当时他们也尝试过拯救，却以失败而告终---如今汀被诊断为患有可能致命的心脏病。她们唯一的选择便只剩下为这只猫咪植入人工心脏起搏器，而这一手术，即便是波士顿最好的动物医院也已经有数十年没有进行过了。她们决定不再失去另一名家庭成员，因此她们代替这只象征着父亲影子的灰色猫咪，踏上了一场异常艰难的寻医之旅----然而这场旅程中，母女两人中还将有一人面对自己的诊断噩耗。（DC）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 24岁时，丽莎•华伦被任命为 Godine 出版社公关部长。在成为Perseus的宣传部长前，她曾就职于Houghton Mifflin，后于其姐妹公司 Da Capo担任资深宣传部长。华伦小姐是"The Savvy Author’s Guide to Book Publicity"一书的作者，拥有迈阿密大学英语教育学士学位和贝林顿学院创造性写作硕士学位。其诗歌曾刊登在诸如《西风季刊》《牛津杂志》《黑战士书评》及《诗行》等杂志上，并且其本人也曾担任文学杂志Post Road的诗歌编辑。2003年以来，华伦女士一直担任波士顿艾默生学院的一名副教授，教授关于图书编辑的本科及研究生课程。2007年，她成为了波士顿大学出版机构项目中的首位教职成员。她为《郝芬顿邮报》进行博客撰写，并在弗吉尼亚图书节、雷斯利大学、纽约大学、出版家市场联盟、美国期刊杂志及作者协会、南部出版家联盟、波士顿书商、新英格兰浪漫作家协会、前言杂志格拉博街、哈佛大学尼曼研究会等诸多机构进行关于出版题材的演讲。

At age 24, Lissa Warren was named Publicity Director at Godine Publishers. She then worked at Houghton Mifflin before becoming Director of Publicity at Perseus , then Senior Director of Publicity at their sister company, Da Capo. Ms. Warren is the author of The Savvy Author’s Guide to Book Publicity and holds a B.S. in English Education from Miami University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Bennington College. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as Quarterly West, Oxford Magazine, Black Warrior Review, and Verse, and she serves as a Poetry Editor for the literary magazine Post Road. Since 2003, Ms. Warren has been an Adjunct Professor at Boston’s Emerson College, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Book Editing, Book Publicity, and Book. In 2007, she became one of the first faculty members in Boston University’s publishing certificate program. She blogs about publishing for the Huffington Post, and has spoken about publishing for the Virginia Festival of the Book, Lesley University, New York University, Publishers Marketing Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Publishers Association of the South, BookBuilders of Boston, the Romance Writer’s Association of New England, ForeWord magazine, Grub Street, and Harvard University’s Nieman Conference, among others.

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