出版社: Bloomsbury USA
副标题: A Memoir
出版年: 2014-5-6
页数: 240
定价: USD 28.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781608198061
内容简介 · · · · · ·
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast’s memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents.
When i...
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast’s memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents.
When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”—with predictable results—the tools that had served Roz well through her parents’ seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed.
While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies—an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades—the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care.
An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast’s talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Roz Chast grew up in Brooklyn. Her cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978. Since then, she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine. She has written and illustrated many books, including What I Hate: From A to Z, and the collections of her own cartoons The Party After You Left and Theories of Everything. She is the editor of The Best American Co...
Roz Chast grew up in Brooklyn. Her cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978. Since then, she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine. She has written and illustrated many books, including What I Hate: From A to Z, and the collections of her own cartoons The Party After You Left and Theories of Everything. She is the editor of The Best American Comics 2016 and the illustrator of Calvin Trillin's No Fair! No Fair! and Daniel Menaker's The African Svelte, all published in Fall 2016.
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储藏室是父母舒适的家
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0 有用 三匝 2017-07-24 23:08:40
恰好看到了Roz Chast在SF Jewish Museum的个展,书中提到的作者父母家中的几个老物件也展出了。说不出什么感觉,熟悉又抗拒,漫画的形式甚至更好的诠释了传记的真实性。生活的样子,苦及苦中作乐。
0 有用 wasteland 2015-11-03 09:47:16
挺有趣
0 有用 cherrypicker 2015-09-15 02:39:28
用轻松的笔调,讲我们都讲遭遇的未来。
0 有用 沙拉勺子 2015-05-25 07:36:43
一言难尽
0 有用 庙 2015-01-16 05:13:38
紐約客上讀過片段後,留下了很深刻的印象,書本身也很不錯,可能用漫畫的方式來討論老年人的各種options(如assisted living等)旨在減少抑鬱感吧
0 有用 摄氏233度 2024-05-07 02:07:02 加拿大
2024已读56: 和父母的告别之书,虽然画风非常狂野,但是情感非常细腻。很能理解作者对父母又爱又恨的情感。读的过程中也会忍不住想未来父母年老时该如何处理和面对。读完感慨万分,有种淡淡的惆怅。
0 有用 面包石头 2024-02-28 12:16:38 安徽
走到生命尽头,人还是会面对无限孤独。
0 有用 陶者无缰 2024-01-13 06:22:15 美国
中文世界的我們喜歡美化一下「在生命的最後階段,人仿佛又回到了嬰兒狀態。長時間的嗜睡,醒來吃一點點流質的營養素,大小便不能自理」然而實際情況跟嬰兒是完全不一樣的,作者跟她IQ152+的暴脾氣老媽非常辛辣地稱之為「pulsating piece of protoplasm」一坨搏動的原生質,且散發著難以形容的臭味。這個來自俄羅斯的猶太家庭有著非常東方式的無法修彌卻又難以割捨的親子關係。直面衰老以及死亡... 中文世界的我們喜歡美化一下「在生命的最後階段,人仿佛又回到了嬰兒狀態。長時間的嗜睡,醒來吃一點點流質的營養素,大小便不能自理」然而實際情況跟嬰兒是完全不一樣的,作者跟她IQ152+的暴脾氣老媽非常辛辣地稱之為「pulsating piece of protoplasm」一坨搏動的原生質,且散發著難以形容的臭味。這個來自俄羅斯的猶太家庭有著非常東方式的無法修彌卻又難以割捨的親子關係。直面衰老以及死亡,讓我們更清晰地看待這一切。When the Devil doesn't want her, and God's not ready,希望我們都做好了更實際的準備,成為了更強大的自己。 (展开)
0 有用 Jean-François 2023-11-17 16:23:19 美国
前面描写日常家庭场景妙趣横生,最后几章生死离别却也没有亲情题材里常见的滥情和故作透彻。作者一定是个特别有趣的人。
0 有用 echo自由自在 2023-09-07 09:47:37 上海
死亡教育,原生家庭创伤。