Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in 1934, Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine. After two years in the Royal Navy as part of his National Service, Chambers trained as a teacher and taught for three years at Westcliff High School in Southend on Sea before joining an Anglican monastery in Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1960. He later used his experience as a monk in his novel Now I Know.
His first plays, including Johnny Salter (1966), The Car and The Chicken Run (1968), were published while he was a teacher at Archway School in Stroud.
Chambers left the monastery in 1967 and a year later became a freelance writer. His works include the "Dance sequence" of six novels: Breaktime, Dance on My Grave, Now I Know, The Toll Bridge, Postcards from No Man's Land which won the 1999 Carnegie Medal and This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn. He and his wife, Nancy, founded Thimble Press and the magazine Signal to promote literature for children and young adults. They were awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding services to children's books in 1982. From 2003 to 2006 he was President of the School Library Association.
Dance on My Grave: a life and a death in four parts, one hundred and seventeen bits, six running reports and two press clippings, with a few jokes, a puzzle or three, some footnotes and a fiasco now and then to help the story along is a 1982 young adult novel by British author Aidan Chambers. It is the second book in the Dance Sequence series.
It tells the story of a British teenager named Henry Robinson, detailing the events that led to his dancing on the grave of his slightly older friend, Barry Gorman, with whom Robinson had a love affair.
It was one of the first few young adult books published by a major publisher that depicts homosexuality without being judgmental and was included on ALA's and other libraries' list of books for gay teens. It has also been referred to in a number of books on children and young adult literature.
Because of its gay-positive theme, it was challenged at the Montgomery County Memorial Library System in 2004 by the Library Patrons of Texas.
在我看来,青春总是残酷的。 那是个刚刚拥有了成年人的力量,却不会正确使用的时期,懵懵懂懂,不知轻重,对任何事物都抱有完美的幻想。无论是狂烈的喜欢,还是残忍的伤害,都是不计后果随心而至的行为。青春的冲动必然会带来各种各样的伤痛,遍布在心灵上的伤口,就是成长。...
評分 評分仅献给少年 不对 这可是个美丽而伤心的故事 二人说话曾如同打哑迷 英国式含蓄 节制而又燃烧至死 最后就只剩下寂寞 悲凉 我追寻的可能只是 电影 书籍里的意象 幻影 你只是恰逢其时地 显露出相似的灵魂 只有几分 三或五分 余下的 则构成悲剧因素 生命中的一切都是茫然 连同世人常...
評分一口气读完朋友推荐的DANCE ON MY GRAVE(这个名字真的像极了奥登的诗句)。 许多情结让人会心一笑。 尤其是,那些只有青春年少恋人间才会有的独特语言、思绪和小动作。 作者对写作语言的选择充分展示了少年亨利纯真、善感、多思、细腻和依恋的性格特征。少女凯莉极其成熟的言...
評分沒想象中好。
评分Think about death and love and life and why you're changing.一首痛苦的成長之歌。
评分想起十六歲的你。
评分Barry太自我而Hal太自憐,Kari一定是讀者一開始最討厭而最後最喜歡的角色。有意思的書,但是不屬於最好的Young Adult Novel之列。
评分Think about death and love and life and why you're changing.一首痛苦的成長之歌。
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