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内容简介:
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life’s work to find happiness. It’s a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin.
It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she’d written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
作者简介:
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.
One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 “Best of Young British Writers” in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.
She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and also wrote “Great Moments in Aviation,” a television screenplay directed by Beeban Kidron for BBC2 in 1994. She is editor of a series of new editions of novels by Virginia Woolf published in the UK by Vintage. She is a regular contributor of reviews and articles to many newspapers and journals and has a regular column published in The Guardian. Her radio drama includes the play Text Message, broadcast by BBC Radio in November 2001.
Winterson lives in Gloucestershire and London. Her work is published in 28 countries.
原文摘录:
我不知道她为何没有生或者不能生孩子。我知道她领养我是因为想要一个朋友（她没有朋友），也因为我好似一枚射入人间的信号弹——以此说明她的存在——一种标示地点的记号。
她讨厌自己默默无闻。和所有孩子一样，不论是领养的还是亲生的，我必须活出些她未竟的人生。我们要为父母做这件事，我们其实没什么选择。 (查看原文)
大风烧了坟头草
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眼前的她挤在电话亭里，不成比例的庞大，大于现实中的她。她就如同一个童话故事，一切尺寸都随意且不稳定。她赫然现形。她膨胀延展。直到后来，很久以后，太久以后，我才了解，完全属于她自己的部分是多么微小。那个无人抱起的婴儿。那个依然在她身体里面未曾被怀胎的孩子。 (查看原文)
大风烧了坟头草
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44赞
2018-02-17 15:50:31
—— 引自第1页