THE OBJECT PARADE
Book ID/图书代码： 03371014B70466
English Summary/英文概要： This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell? In recalling her experience, Dinah’s essays each begin with one thing -- real or imaginary, lost or found, rare or ordinary, animal, vegetable, mineral, edible. Each object comes with a memory or a story, and so sparks an opportunity for rue or reflection or confession or revelation, having to do with her coming of age as a daughter, mother, actor, and writer: the piano that holds secrets to family history and inheritance; the gifted watches that tell so much more than time; the little black dress that carries all of youth’s love and longing; the purple scarf that stands in for her journey from New York to Los Angeles, across stage and screen, to pursue her acting dream. Read together or apart, the essays project the bountiful mosaic of life and love, of moving to Los Angeles and raising a family; of coming to terms with place, relationship, failures, and success; of dealing with up-ended notions about home and family and career and aging, too. Taken together, they add up to a pastiche of an artful and quirky life, lovingly remembered, compellingly told, wrapped up in the ties that bind the passage of time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部收入了各种有关内在关联性文章的选集将带领读者迈向一满是刺激的领域：如果从物品内部进行观察检验是了解你的生活的一种方式？你将会选择哪些物品呢？他们又拥有着怎样的记忆？倘若排列一行，它们又将讲述怎样的故事？通过对自己经历的回忆， 戴娜的每一篇文章都始于一事或一物---或是真实或是虚幻，或是迷失或是寻觅，或是罕见或是平凡，可以使动物，植物，矿物，亦或者是食物。每一个物体都有其本身的回忆或故事，因此也创造出了让我们咀嚼、反思、忏悔与坦白的机会，并与她的每一次成长息息相关：作为一名女儿成年，成为母亲，成为演员，成为作家：钢琴中蕴藏着关于家族历史与遗产的秘密；礼物表讲述的不仅仅是时间的故事；小黑裙里藏着年轻时的爱恋与渴望；紫围巾代表着从纽约到洛杉矶，穿越了舞台与荧幕，她的演艺之梦。不论是一气呵成的读来还是分开细品，这些文章投射出大量有关于生活与爱的马赛克图案，有关于移居洛杉矶并经营家庭；有关于与住所，人际、失败以及成功的妥协；有关于处理那些与家与家庭、事业以及衰老等无解的课题。所有的汇聚一起，是一部充满艺术与怪趣的生活拼接艺术作品，被充满爱意的铭记，被动人地讲述，紧紧围绕在紧扣时光流逝的绳索之上。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 戴娜•兰尼，作家，著有Bigger than Life，由内布拉斯加大学出版社出版，美国生活系列作品之一，并被收入纽约时报周末版杂志的生活专栏。她是贝宁顿写作研讨会与瑞尼亚写作工作室的核心成员之一，同时她还是一名专业写作硕士课程的全职助理教授，就职于南加利福尼亚大学。戴娜的论文与书评曾被刊登在《纽约时报》、《洛杉矶时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、Ploughshares、 Agni、 Creative Nonfiction、 Brevity、 The Kenyon Review Online、《洛杉矶图书评论》,《南安普顿书评》, 《传统评论》, 以及Coachella 评论等许多书刊上。作者毕业于耶鲁大学，并于贝宁顿写作研讨会获得美学硕士学位，并于Neighborhood 戏剧学校获得表演资质，在一系列戏剧与影视作品中扮演角色，她参演的作品有《急诊室的故事》,、《墨菲布朗》《法律与秩序》《神探阿蒙》《终结者外传》《混乱之子》。
Dinah Lenney is the author of Bigger than Life, published in the American Lives Series at the University of Nebraska Press, and excerpted for the “Lives” column in The New York Times Sunday Magazine. She serves as core faculty for the Bennington Writing Seminars and for the Rainier Writing Workshop, and is a full-time Assistant Professor in the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California. Dinah’s essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Ploughshares, Agni, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Kenyon Review Online, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Southampton Review, Superstition Review, and the Coachella Review, among others. She earned her Bachelor’s at Yale and a Master of Fine Arts at the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as a Certificate of Acting from the Neighborhood Playhouse School, and has played a wide range of roles in theatre and television, on shows such as ER, Murphy Brown, Law and Order, Monk, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Sons of Anarchy.
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