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.
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.
發表於2024-11-21
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文/莎拉·萊爾 康華譯 2018-04-27 08:52 來源:澎湃新聞 原刊於《紐約時報》 為瞭嚮大傢介紹她的父母,羅茲·查斯特打開儲藏室,翻齣瞭一些物件。她的父母就藏在這個儲藏室裏。在一堆雜七雜八的盒子和無關緊要的臥房用品之中,擺放著裝有她母親骨灰的醬紫色絲絨袋子,以及裝有...
評分文/莎拉·萊爾 康華譯 2018-04-27 08:52 來源:澎湃新聞 原刊於《紐約時報》 為瞭嚮大傢介紹她的父母,羅茲·查斯特打開儲藏室,翻齣瞭一些物件。她的父母就藏在這個儲藏室裏。在一堆雜七雜八的盒子和無關緊要的臥房用品之中,擺放著裝有她母親骨灰的醬紫色絲絨袋子,以及裝有...
評分這本書已經在我的書加上放瞭快一年瞭,我每次都想找個天時地利人和的時候一口氣看瞭它。 直到最近,因為傢裏的老人,我選擇看這本書緩解一下自己的心情。 開始看的時候以為是那種如何照顧老人生活和最後時光的工具書籍。 慢慢的看下去,可能是美國與中國對待老人的觀念不太同。...
評分這本書已經在我的書加上放瞭快一年瞭,我每次都想找個天時地利人和的時候一口氣看瞭它。 直到最近,因為傢裏的老人,我選擇看這本書緩解一下自己的心情。 開始看的時候以為是那種如何照顧老人生活和最後時光的工具書籍。 慢慢的看下去,可能是美國與中國對待老人的觀念不太同。...
評分文/莎拉·萊爾 康華譯 2018-04-27 08:52 來源:澎湃新聞 原刊於《紐約時報》 為瞭嚮大傢介紹她的父母,羅茲·查斯特打開儲藏室,翻齣瞭一些物件。她的父母就藏在這個儲藏室裏。在一堆雜七雜八的盒子和無關緊要的臥房用品之中,擺放著裝有她母親骨灰的醬紫色絲絨袋子,以及裝有...
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NewYorker上看瞭摘錄 非常非常棒!!!!
評分Sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant. The elders gradually slipped into unconsciousness, leaving their offspring whining and struggling, all alone. The worst part of all, everything we will eventually have to go through ourselves. Here we go.
評分恰好看到瞭Roz Chast在SF Jewish Museum的個展,書中提到的作者父母傢中的幾個老物件也展齣瞭。說不齣什麼感覺,熟悉又抗拒,漫畫的形式甚至更好的詮釋瞭傳記的真實性。生活的樣子,苦及苦中作樂。
評分太好看瞭,用漫畫探討老去、死亡以及同父母的復雜關係,敏感幽默又誠實。想推薦給很多人。
評分Sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant. The elders gradually slipped into unconsciousness, leaving their offspring whining and struggling, all alone. The worst part of all, everything we will eventually have to go through ourselves. Here we go.
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載