A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Low Price CD

“活着，奋斗着，爱着我们的生活，爱着生活馈赠的一切悲欢，那就是，一种实现。生活的充实常在，人人皆可获得。”贝蒂·史密斯（1896—1972），德国移民的女儿，成长于纽约布鲁克林的威廉斯堡。她的经历与这部小说主人公弗兰西相似，早年也是靠自学完成了初步的知识积累。后来她进入大学学习新闻、戏剧、写作和文学。《布鲁克林有棵树》是其最主要作品，曾被改编为电影、电视、音乐剧等多种形式，并曾获得过奥斯卡奖。她还是一位剧作家，一生写过多部独幕剧和完整的长篇戏剧，曾获洛克菲勒基金会和戏剧家协会基金会资助。

作者:Smith, Betty

页数:0

出版时间:2008-2

价格:144.00元

isbn号码:9780061650499

A moving coming-of-age story set in the 1900's, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn follows the lives of 11-year-old Francie Nolan, her younger brother Neely, and their parents, Irish immigrants who have settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Johnny Nolan is as loving and fanciful as they come, but he is also often drunk and out of work, unable to find his place in the land of opportunity. His wife Katie scrubs floors to put food on the table and clothes on her childrens' backs, instilling in them the values of being practical and planning ahead. When Johnny dies, leaving Katie pregnant, Francie, smart, pensive and hoping for something better, cannot believe that life can carry on as before. But with her own determination, and that of her mother behind her, Francie is able to move toward the future of her dreams, completing her education and heading oft to college, always carrying the beloved Brooklyn of her childhood in her heart.

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