A Life Discarded读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 272页 | 2020 | Fourth Estate |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GBP 16.99 | 2020-02-20 … | 2020-08-04 … | 42 |
Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap. A Life Discarded is a biographical detective story. In 2001, 148 tattered and mould-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Tens of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous diary, starting in 1952 and ending half a century later, a few weeks before the books were thrown out. Over five years, the award-winning biographer Alexander Masters uncovers the identity and real history of their author, with an astounding final revelation. A Life Discarded is a true, shocking, poignant, often hilarious story of an ordinary life. The author of the diaries, known only as 'I', is the tragicomic patron saint of everyone who feels their life should have been more successful. Part thrilling detective story, part love story, part social history, A Life Discarded is also an account of two writers' obsessions: of 'I's need to record every second of life and of Masters' pursuit of this mysterious yet universal diarist.
作者简介作者简介
亚历山大·马斯特斯（Alexander Masters, 1965— ）
英国传记作家、编剧。生于美国，伦敦国王学院物理学硕士、剑桥大学圣埃德蒙学院数学硕士。现居英国萨塞克斯郡。
2005年，凭借处女作《倒带人生》（Stuart: A Life Backwards）登上文坛，该书诉说了身兼小偷、人质挟持者、精神病人与游民等多重身份的男子斯图尔特·肖特那伤痕累累、前科无数且放荡不羈的鲜活人生，曾荣获“《卫报》首作奖”，荣登《每日电讯报》“定义二〇〇〇年代的百本图书”榜，并被英国广播公司（BBC）制作成电影，由汤姆·哈迪和本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇主演。
《被搞丢的人生：废料箱里的148本日记》（A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip）是其第三部传记新作。
译者简介
吴文忠，北京航空航天大学外语学院...
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