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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，更是对逝去生命的敬畏，是对他们为小镇做出贡献的尊重。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，有第一夫人埃莉诺·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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