Dead End In Norvelt 诺维特小镇的尽头(2012年纽伯瑞金奖) ISBN9781250010230 umd mobi chm 夸克云 免费 azw3 下载 pdf

作者杰克·加图斯巧妙地将历史、神秘、幽默融合到了这部半自传半小说的《诺维特小镇的尽头》中，在这个小镇里，过去即是现在，现在令人困惑，而未来更是无从追索。

1962年的夏天，12岁的杰克因为偷玩父亲的手枪被关禁闭。为了能出门，杰克答应了帮邻居沃克夫人给小镇的逝者们写讣告。对于沃克夫人和镇民们来说，讣告不仅仅是死亡的记录，还是对逝者为小镇做出贡献的评述与尊重，是对生命的敬畏。在这个过程中，杰克仿佛踏入了一场奇异的历史旅程，旅程中有燃尽的蜡烛，有*埃莉诺·罗斯福，有被扭曲的承诺，有父亲的飞机，有骑三轮车的镇民，有瘟疫，有地狱天使，甚至有谋杀……

杰克对小镇的过去充满了好奇并慢慢懂得了尊重历史。随着死亡人数的过快增加，杰克更是逐渐揭开了小镇的诅咒之谜……

Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in

Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named

Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when

he is “grounded for life” by his feuding parents, and whose nose

spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of

excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack’s way once his mom loans

him out to help a feisty old neighbor with a most unusual

chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people

who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another,

Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax,

Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl

Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the

past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder.

Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author

at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most

unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a

slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is

confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.

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Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from

picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults

and adults. His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won

the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors, Joey Pigza

Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, and Joey Pigza

Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book.

Jack was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and grew up in

nearby Norvelt. When he was seven, his family moved to Barbados. He

attended British schools, where there was much emphasis on reading

and writing, and teachers made learning a lot of fun. When the

family moved to south Florida, he found his new classmates

uninterested in their studies, and his teachers spent most of their

time disciplining students. Jack retreated to an abandoned

bookmobile (three flat tires and empty of books) parked out behind

the sandy ball field, and read for most of the day. The seeds for

Jack’s writing career were planted in sixth grade, when he read his

sister’s diary and decided he could write better than she could. He

begged his mother for a diary and began to collect anecdotes he

overheard at school, mostly from standing outside the teachers’

lounge and listening to their lunchtime conversations. Later, he

incorporated many of these anecdotes into stories.

While in college, he and an illustrator friend, Nicole Rubel, began

working on picture books. After a series of well-deserved

rejections, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph, in 1976.

It was a success and the beginning of Jack’s career as a

professional writer. Jack continued to write children’s books and

began to teach courses in children’s book writing and children’s

literature. He developed the master’s degree program in children’s

book writing at Emerson College and the Vermont College M.F.A.

program for children’s book writers. He now devotes his time to

writing books and educational speaking. He lives with his family in

Boston, Massachusetts.

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媒体评论

“This is a brilliant book, full of history, mystery, and laughs.

It reminded me of my small-town childhood, although my small town

was never as delightfully weird as Norvelt.” —Dave Barry

“A bit of autobiography works its way into all of Gantos’s work,

but he one-ups himself in this wildly entertaining meld of truth

and fiction by naming the main character . . . Jackie Gantos.”

—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A fast-paced and witty read.” —School Library Journal

“A more quietly (but still absurdly) funny and insightful

account of a kid’s growth, kin to Gantos’s Jack stories, that will

stealthily hook even resistant readers into the lure of history.”

—BCCB

“This winning novel, both humorous and heartwarming, takes place

during the summer of 1962, when narrator Jack Gantos turns 12 and

spends most of his days grounded. Jack’s main ‘get out of jail free

card,’ and one of the novel’s most charming characters, is Miss

Volker. The blossoming of their friendship coincides with the

blooming of Jack’s character.” —Shelf Awareness Pro

“There’s more than laugh-out-loud gothic comedy here. This is a

richly layered semi-autobiographical tale, an ode to a time and

place, to history and the power of reading.” —The Horn Book,

starred review

“Gantos, as always, delivers bushels of food for thought and

plenty of outright guffaws.” —Booklist

“An exhilarating summer marked by death, gore and fire sparks

deep thoughts in a small-town lad not uncoincidentally named ‘Jack

Gantos.’ The gore is all Jack’s, which to his continuing

embarrassment ‘would spray out of my nose holes like dragon flames’

whenever anything exciting or upsetting happens. And that would be

on every other page, seemingly. . . . Characteristically

provocative gothic comedy, with sublime undertones.” —Kirkus

Reviews, starred review

“Nobody can tell a story like Jack Gantos can. And this is a

story like no other. It’s funny. It’s thoughtful. It’s history.

It’s weird. But you don’t need me to attempt to describe it. Get in

there and start reading Gantos.” —Jon Scieszka, founder of

guysread.com and author of the Spaceheadz series