Breaking Night

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Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University in 2009. She has been awarded The White House Project Role Model Award, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to Liz by Oprah Winfrey. Lifetime Television produced a film about Liz's life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. Today, she travels the world to deliver motivational speeches and workshops to inspire others. Liz is the founder and director of Manifest Trainings, a New York-based company that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives. ^Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University in 2009. She has been awarded The White House Project Role Model Award, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to Liz by Oprah Winfrey. Lifetime Television produced a film about Liz's life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. Today, she travels the world to deliver motivational speeches and workshops to inspire others. Liz is the founder and director of Manifest Trainings, a New York-based company that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives.

出版者:Hyperion
作者:Liz Murray
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頁數:352
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出版時間:2010-9-7
價格:USD 24.99
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9780786868919
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" Breaking Night reads more like an adventure story than an addiction-morality tale. It's a white-knuckle account of survival. . . . By age 6, Murray knew how to mainline drugs (though she never took them) and how to care for her strung-out parents. She showed uncanny maturity, even as a child, and later managed to avoid that malady of teenagers and memoir writers, self-pity. . . . Murray's stoicism has been hard-earned; it serves her well as a writer. Breaking Night itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving." ( The New York Times Book Review ) "Liz Murray shows us that the human spirit has infinite ability to grow and can never be limited by circumstance. Breaking Night is a beautifully written, heartfelt memoir that will change the way you look your community, the obstacles in your own life and the American Dream. An inspiration, a must read." (Robert Redford) "[Liz Murray] reminds us that the greatest acts of love and failure can occur side by side; that isolation and loss can give way to accomplishment and promise. She offers the awesome hope that, regardless of its past, a life can go beyond endurance and reach for triumph. She leave us with the memory of a child who clung to and refused to surrender the dignity of her soul." (Andrew Bridge, author of the New York Times bestseller Hope's Boy ) "As much as it is a memoir, Breaking Night is a primer on how poverty and drug abuse create a heartbreaking underclass of children, one that goes largely unnoticed. By the truly uplifting ending, Liz Murray has shown us the worst, and the very best, of America." (Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch ) In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.

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回汉时,一个偶然的机会住在西崽家,还是第一次去,往房间里的书架上一扫,惊讶的发现这两年多我俩关注的书有好几本相同,这本书便是其中之一。曾经还上网找过电子版,没找到,也就放弃了。看到西崽书架上的那本,回家便在亚马逊上淘回一本,直到离家前几天才到。在飞机上一口...  

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高中看过同名电影,直到大学才把书看了。一个贫民窟的女孩最后走进哈佛的校园,到成为一名著名的演说家,实在非常不容易。在看这本书的过程,我在寻找一个答案,究竟是什么让莉丝做出了人生拐点的选择,去选择重新上高中,开始跟以前不一样的人生。我觉得母亲的死对她的影响也...  

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当莉丝身上的钱只够做两件事情,买地铁去下一个地点面试和坐火车回去,还可以买点披萨,如果是我,我可能会选择后者。 小时候,父亲跟我讲过一句话叫:“穷人的孩子先当家”,每个人对这句话的体会是不一样。刚出生 ,她已经注定去应付,“毒品,色情交易,贫...  

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莉斯-默里的故事是如此的令人心灵震撼,以致于被拍成电影并获得大奖。一个生活在无家可归者家庭的女孩,父母双双感染上艾滋病,但这个女孩没有放弃人生的希望,她用自己微薄的力量向命运挑战,最后踏入了哈佛大学的学术殿堂。 由于父母都染上了毒瘾,默里8岁...  

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这本书的分类是励志传记,很久以前也看过这部电影,确实小小地励志了一把,觉得自己只要努力没有达不到的梦想。可是,后来就渐渐忘了,在日复一日的生活里,渐渐忘却了自己还有梦想,忘了本该竭尽所能去追寻自己的梦。励志故事的效果大都如此,心里热乎一把,小小激动一把,然...

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really good book. not sure if Liz wrote it herself? because i am confused how she can remember all the little details that happened when she was less then 5 years old?

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很久沒有那種意猶未盡的感覺瞭,這本書讀瞭大概有10天,每次拿起都不想放下。生活就是這樣,或許苦難或許勵誌,或許無奈獲取自強,就像是作者最後說的那句話:“Life takes on the meaning that you give it”。之前度過毛姆的人生的枷鎖,覺得人生其實就是毫無意義的,所謂的意義都是人賦予的。可是想想如果人生滿都是負麵的東西,那麼活著便是真的沒有意義瞭。人類賦予的也好,自然存在的也好,給自己設定目標,然後認真地活下去,享受自己達成目標的過程,這樣的生活不也挺好嗎?很喜歡Liz舉的那個例子,我的眼前真的齣現瞭那個跨欄跑的運動員,是她賜予我力量。作為英專生,覺得文章寫得很好,用小詞很多,句子不長,便於理解。讀的過程中剛好可以督促自己掌握新的詞匯,還有各種近義詞等。很好!

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inspiring and moving

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“我願意以任何代價,換迴曾經那個溫暖幸福的傢。”

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Read it as the English material. If what I read is the Chinese version, I may have dropped it in a half way. 85%of the book describes her miserable life before high school, and only 15% tells us how she tried her best for the study and scholarship. For me, I haven’t been touched that much. 作為英語讀物讀完的。如果是讀的中文版,可能看不到一半就放棄瞭吧。本以為是部勵誌書,結果85%都在寫她高中之前的悲慘生活

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