书名：Long Way Down长路漫漫

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数HL720L
作者：Jason Reynolds
出版社名称：Atheneum Books
出版时间：2019
语种：英文
ISBN：9781481438261
商品尺寸：14 x 2.5 x 21 cm
包装：平装
页数：336（以实物为准）
本书Long Way Down《长路漫漫》是纽约时报畅销书作家杰森·雷诺兹写的一部小说，作者以精炼、锋利的笔触，通过叙事诗的形式，描绘了一个绝望的少年发现哥哥被谋杀后，在是否前去找凶手复仇的选择中徘徊。他把枪藏在腰带上，然后乘电梯从公寓的八楼下来，剧情便在他乘坐电梯的60秒内展开。书名虽简单，但却寓意深刻。该书还入围了美国国家图书奖，受到无数读者的喜爱和好评。

媒体评论：
“这本书是这个季度发布的小说里结尾非常精妙的。它是一部高风险的道德惊悚片，作为剧本，它也是适合在读者剧场里表演的作品。”——《号角杂志》

A Newbery Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Printz Honor Book
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award
An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction
Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner
An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017
A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017
A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017

An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother.
As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator?
Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.

Review
“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist

“Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews
Long Way Down《长路漫漫》的情节在短短60秒内展开，主人公——15岁的少年Will要在一分钟内决定是否以牙还牙，杀掉让哥哥Shawn死于枪下的那个人。Will知道规则，他没有哭，没有告密，只想着复仇，他在后腰带上别了哥哥的枪。电梯正在下降，每一层停一次，每一次都会有一个跟哥哥有关的人上来，带来有关Shawn之死的更多扑朔迷离的信息……
Jason Reynoldsis a New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, National Book Award Honoree, a Kirkus Award winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. The American Booksellers Association’s 2017 and 2018 spokesperson for Indies First, his many books include When I Was the Greatest, Boy in the Black Suit, All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), As Brave as You, For Every One, the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu), and Long Way Down, which received both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor. He lives in Washington, DC.
DON’T NOBODY
believe nothing
these days
which is why I haven’t
told nobody the story
I’m about to tell you.
And truth is,
you probably ain’t
gon’ believe it either
gon’ think I’m lying
or I’m losing it,
but I’m telling you,
this story is true.
It happened to me.
Really.
It did.
It so did.