Breaking Night

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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
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頁數:352
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出版時間:2010-9-7
價格:USD 24.99
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9780786868919
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" 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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買這本書,確實因為這段時間極度需要一點激勵,工作中天天齣現的問題讓我覺得厭煩瞭。 這本書我隻看瞭前麵幾頁,然後直接跳到200頁之後的她選擇讀書的部分開始看。因為前麵的大部分都是在描述她在貧民窟的生活,一直充斥著飢餓,慌亂和不安定。不知道是不是越是成功的人,越想...  

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最初看同名電影,看到父母吸毒的時候,感覺惡心,受不瞭;也許是習慣瞭日韓的清純和英美的大氣。 後來得瞭傳染病,身體情況每況愈下,更鬱悶的是這個傳染病不痛苦卻很容易使彆人痛苦,而由於不是什麼要命的病,所以醫院都不怎麼給治。如果是在鄉下或是鬧市,這也就不算病;然而...  

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當莉絲身上的錢隻夠做兩件事情,買地鐵去下一個地點麵試和坐火車迴去,還可以買點披薩,如果是我,我可能會選擇後者。 小時候,父親跟我講過一句話叫:“窮人的孩子先當傢”,每個人對這句話的體會是不一樣。剛齣生 ,她已經注定去應付,“毒品,色情交易,貧...  

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really good book. not sure if Liz wrote it herself? because i am confused how she can remember all the little details that happened when she was less then 5 years old?

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相比這本書,我更喜歡電影。電影看完以後給人感覺很勵誌很有動力。而書一共12章,前十章半都在描述悲慘的童年和流浪生活,看著僅僅覺得壓抑。

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inspiring and moving

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