乔纳森·罗森：强头脑 纽约时报年度好书 非虚构类 The Best Minds

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 576 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin

ISBN:9781802063257

Published:18 Apr 2024

Weight:500g

Dimensions:198 x 129 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

小说家扣人心弦的调查力量，导致他的童年好朋友从学术明星到精神病院，他杀死了他爱的女人住在那里

1973年，罗森一家搬到纽约州的新罗谢尔(New Rochelle)，乔纳森·罗森和迈克尔·劳多尔从此形影不离。这两个男孩都是教授的孩子，他们是好朋友，也是激烈的竞争对手，很快就相继进入了耶鲁大学。

迈克尔用三年时间在耶鲁大学取得了辉煌的成绩，以优等的成绩毕业，并找到了一份的咨询工作。然后有一天，乔纳森接到了一个毁灭性的电话:迈克尔精神崩溃了，住在一家精神病医院的锁着的病房里。

迈克尔被诊断出患有精神分裂症，当他得知自己被耶鲁大学法学院录取时，他还在住院。当他克服重重困难决定入学时，他住在一个中途之家。在与妄想作斗争中，他成功地毕业了，在他的胜利故事被《纽约时报》报道后，他的回忆录卖了一大笔钱。罗恩·霍华德买下了电影版权，完成了迈克尔和他孜孜不倦支持他的女友凯莉的梦想，布拉德·皮特将出演。但是迈克尔，在精神疾病的控制下，做出了一个可怕的行为，使他成为一个完全不同的头版故事。

《The Best Minds》是乔纳森·罗森(Jonathan Rosen)对一场美国悲剧的有力描述，故事发生在美国世纪的末后几十年，这个时代恰逢州立精神病院的清空。这是一个关于友谊的纽带、错觉的代价和身份之谜的故事。《The Best Minds》温柔、有趣、悲伤交替上演，它既讲述了一个美丽的成长故事，也控诉了我们社会对精神疾病的严重忽视。

A novelist's gripping investigation of the forces that led his childhood best friend from academic stardom to the psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved

When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, New York in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of professors, the boys were best friends and fierce rivals who soon followed each other to Yale University.

Michael blazed through Yale in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a consulting job. Then one day, Jonathan received a devastating call: Michael had suffered a psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Michael was still in hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale Law School, and living in a halfway house when he decided, against all odds, to enroll. Still battling delusions, he managed to graduate, and after his triumphant story was featured in The New York Times, sold a memoir for a vast sum. Ron Howard bought film rights, completing the dream for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie, and Brad Pitt was set to star. But then Michael, in the grip of psychosis, committed a horrific act that made him a front-page story of an entirely different sort.

The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's powerful account of an American tragedy, set in the final decades of the American century, an era that coincided with the emptying out of state mental hospitals. It is a story about the bonds of friendship, the price of delusion and the mystery of identity. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The Best Minds is both a beautifully rendered coming of age story and an indictment of the profound neglect of mental illness in our society.

作者简介

乔纳森·罗森是两本小说的作者:《夏娃的苹果》和《清晨欢乐来了》，以及两本非小说类书籍:《塔木德与互联网》和《天空的生活》。他的文章曾出现在《纽约时报》、《纽约客》、《大西洋月刊》和许多选集上。他和家人住在纽约市。

Jonathan Rosen is the author of two novels: Eve's Apple and Joy Comes in the Morning, and two non-fiction books: The Talmud and the Internet and The Life of the Skies. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and numerous anthologies. He lives with his family in New York City.