Breaking Night

Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University in 2009. She has been awarded The White House Project Role Model Award, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to Liz by Oprah Winfrey. Lifetime Television produced a film about Liz's life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. Today, she travels the world to deliver motivational speeches and workshops to inspire others. Liz is the founder and director of Manifest Trainings, a New York-based company that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives. ^Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University in 2009. She has been awarded The White House Project Role Model Award, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to Liz by Oprah Winfrey. Lifetime Television produced a film about Liz's life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. Today, she travels the world to deliver motivational speeches and workshops to inspire others. Liz is the founder and director of Manifest Trainings, a New York-based company that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives.

出版者:Hyperion

作者:Liz Murray

页数:352

出版时间:2010-9-7

价格:USD 24.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780786868919

图书标签:励志英文原版传记LIZMURRAY美国Liza外国文学风雨哈佛路

" Breaking Night reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It's a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray's stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. Breaking Night itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." ( The New York Times Book Review ) "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and can never be limited by circumstance. Breaking Night is a beautifully written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read." (Robert Redford) "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author of the New York Times bestseller Hope's Boy ) "As much as it is a memoir, Breaking Night is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch ) In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.

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读后感

买这本书，确实因为这段时间极度需要一点激励，工作中天天出现的问题让我觉得厌烦了。 这本书我只看了前面几页，然后直接跳到200页之后的她选择读书的部分开始看。因为前面的大部分都是在描述她在贫民窟的生活，一直充斥着饥饿，慌乱和不安定。不知道是不是越是成功的人，越想...  

莉斯-默里的故事是如此的令人心灵震撼，以致于被拍成电影并获得大奖。一个生活在无家可归者家庭的女孩，父母双双感染上艾滋病，但这个女孩没有放弃人生的希望，她用自己微薄的力量向命运挑战，最后踏入了哈佛大学的学术殿堂。 由于父母都染上了毒瘾，默里8岁...  

我想买此书的时候，该书在大中国还没有上市，我叫人在美国买然后寄回来的。开始看，觉得还是那么回事，看着看着，就失望了。 我发现电影真的是很大程度上升华了Liz Murray 的故事。她的事迹其实没有那么精彩。 她也没有这么正气，不是电影中说的：跟朋友溜达时...  

莉斯-默里的故事是如此的令人心灵震撼，以致于被拍成电影并获得大奖。一个生活在无家可归者家庭的女孩，父母双双感染上艾滋病，但这个女孩没有放弃人生的希望，她用自己微薄的力量向命运挑战，最后踏入了哈佛大学的学术殿堂。 由于父母都染上了毒瘾，默里8岁...  

用户评价

写得好压抑，而且和电影差别太大了。

前11章都在回忆过去的灰暗人生,第12章开始逆袭之路……苦冲开了便淡

风雨哈佛路

一边跑步一边听，就像在回忆当初看过的电影一般，不过细致了许多

风雨哈佛路