Roz Chast was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978. Since then she has published hundreds of cartoons and written or illustrated more than a dozen books.
#1 New York Times Bestseller
2014 National Book Award Finalist
Winner of the inaugural 2014 Kirkus Prize in nonfiction
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the 2014 Books for a Better Life Award
Winner of the 2015 Reuben Award from National Cartoonists Society
In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist 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.
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; 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't We Talk about Something More Pleasant shows the full range of Roz Chast’s talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
發表於2024-11-23
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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 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。...
評分圖書標籤: 非虛構 衰老 死亡 幽默 年齡 已購或已藉
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載