A Series of Unfortunate Events: Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (图书馆装订) 0060007192

Millions of readers of the New York Times best-selling A Series of Unfortunate Events have been asking the same questions: Who is Lemony Snicket? Why has his face never been captured on film? Why is he so obsessed with three unlucky orphans and a woman named Beatrice? Why is he sought after by authorities, feared by associates, avoided by friends?

Finally, here is the definitive -- and only -- book for anyone interested in learning more about the alarmingly elusive author. All available documentation of Snicket's shocking past has been gathered, sorted, annotated, and is now available to the general public. Here is a collection of what can only be called "evidence" writings, photographs, mysterious diagrams, and even several disorienting maps, accompanied by captions, an introduction, and extensive index. Together, these pieces will shed light on a life that until now has been shrouded in darkness and will finally answer the question on everyone's mind: What do we really know about Lemony Snicket?

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is bizarre,abstruse ("a word which here means 'cryptic'"), and truly entertaining. Wouldyou expect anything less from the mystery man behind A Series of UnfortunateEvents (The BadBeginning, The ErsatzElevator, etc.)? Virtually every detail of the volume has Snicket'sindelible mark, from the book jacket (reversible to help readers disguise this"extremely dangerous" and "objectionable" autobiography) to the copyright pagetext to the intentionally blurry and bewildering black-and-white photographsappearing throughout. An apparently false obituary for Lemony Snicket sets thestage for what turns into a series of mind-boggling bundles of coded informationpassed from hand to hand, gleaned from newspapers blowing through streets, pagesfrom a journal addressed to "Dear Dairy," blueprints of ships, minutes fromsecret meetings, and a lot of edited and disputed commentary. The question is,do we finally discover the meaning of VFD? You know you're not going to get astraight answer. But any fan of Snicket will have a lot of fun trying. (Ages 9and older) --Emilie CoulterGrade 4-8 Beneath a simple, seductive Tyvek cover resembling manilaand plain brown paper, snippets of Snicket's life appear in 13chapters of notes, letters, newspaper clippings, songs, photos,telegrams, screenplay excerpts, steamship tickets, and meetingminutes. Daniel Handler prefaces the material. It is not statedwho compiled this information, although there is a speculativetale of how it reached the publisher. Snicket begins with aletter about the inaccurate report of his death published in TheDaily Punctilio and comments on a folk song detailing hisabduction at a young age by the V.F.D. It is noted that allmembers of this organization were snatched at an early age,chronicled with black-and-white photographs. Subsequentdocuments from and about characters in "A Series of UnfortunateEvents," such as Poe, Olaf, Esme, and others, may or may notreveal their connection to V.F.D., which is used as an acronymfor many different organizations, events, and things. Allusionis made to a solid connection between the Snickets andBaudelaires; clearly they are in imminent danger and in need ofthe many disguise suggestions provided. The book's high-glosspages have the look of a scrapbook with many gray pagesreminiscent of early photocopies. References are made to Kafka,Fitzgerald, and children's authors. There is a circuitouslycross-referenced index. Snicket fans will clamor for thisintriguing parody of an autobiography/mystery. -Laura Scott,Baldwin Public Library, Birmingham, MI Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Gr. 4-6. Part of the fun of the droll Series of Unfortunate Events books is narrator Lemony Snicket's practice of making cryptic remarks about his knowledge of and involvement in the Baudelaire orphans' shadowy background story. These mysterious events are unlikely to be explained before the thirteenth book, the projected end of the series. In the meantime, readers fixated on this puzzle will be happy to pore over this "unauthorized autobiography," an eclectic scrapbook of documents such as letters, newspaper articles, and transcripts of meetings and conversations, illustrated with vintage, black-and-white snapshots. Despite bits of humor that extend from the clever title to the reversible book jacket, from the copyright statement to the index, the book comes across as a rather formless vehicle for clues and red herrings. Without the customary characters and plot to keep the momentum going, some readers will bog down before finishing the book. Only for devoted Snicket fans . . . but, of course, libraries are full of devoted Snicket fans. Carolyn Phelan Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved A certain maniacal glee went into the creation of this archly humorous volume. Beginning with the suggestion on the front flap of the dust jacket to disguise its dangerous contents (Make use of this book's reversible jacket immediately), readers will know they're in possession of something deliciously left of normal. The jacket reverses to display a hilarious parody of Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events covers, entitled The Pony Party! and featuring The Luckiest Kids in the World! by Loney M. Setnick. Meanwhile, the contents lead readers on a merry goose chase. The 13 (naturally) chapters burst with red herrings, non sequiturs, mysterious letters, diary entries and so on not to mention fading black-and-white photographs with captions such as Total strangers and W?H?O? The narrative makes for a most satisfying tease, larded with such Snicketisms as For

出版社	HarperCollins
作者	Lemony Snicket