The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (返老还童)(本杰明·巴顿奇事：给即将上映的大片儿提供一个灵感（平装）) 9781416556053

荣获81届奥斯卡三大奖项：【最佳视觉效果】、【最佳艺术指导】和【最佳化装】奖，由布拉德皮特（Brad Pitt）主演的电影 《返老还童》（The Curious Case of Benjamin Button）（又译为《本杰明巴顿奇事》）火热发售！ 本片改编自《了不起的盖茨比》的作者弗司各特菲茨杰拉德（F. Scott Fitzgerald）1922年发表的同名短篇小说，故事的主人公是个叫做本杰明巴顿的怪人。他违反了大自然的规律，竟以老人形象降生人世，之后越活越年轻，倒着成长。 1919年本杰明巴顿（著名影星布拉德皮特饰）降生在巴尔的摩，一出生他就已经是一个70多岁的老婴儿，他的父亲胡乱的将他遗弃在街边。幸运的是，一位好心的黑人妇女收养了他，将她那经由岁月沉淀下来的智慧统统教授于他。1930年，本杰明11岁（他现在看起来有60多岁），他遇到了6岁的黛西（凯特布兰切特饰），他们相爱了。后来二战爆发，本杰明坐船从美国来到英国，途中他遇见了各式各样的人物，见识到了真正的悲剧，也体验到人性最伟大的光辉。战争结束后，他和黛西重逢在纽约，此时黛西已经是一位成功的舞者了。1950年，他们终于看起来差不多大了，本杰明和黛西一起，度过了他们生命中最美好的时光。然而，当本杰明越来越年轻时，他意识到，他不能再和黛西生活在一起了，黛西需要更正常的人生 Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories.

In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse.

This strange and haunting story embodies the sharp social insight that has made Fitzgerald one of the great voices in the history of American literature.

Review Joseph CoatesChicago TribuneBruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald. Leonard A. PodisThe Cleveland Plain DealerThis is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition. Jay McInerneyThe New York Review of BooksOne pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful. Mark CaldwellThe Philadelphia InquirerMore than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story. Review Joseph CoatesChicago TribuneBruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald. Leonard A. PodisThe Cleveland Plain DealerThis is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition. Jay McInerneyThe New York Review of BooksOne pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful. Mark CaldwellThe Philadelphia InquirerMore than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), earned him immediate critical and financial success. The Great Gatsby (1925) was published while he and his wife, Zelda, lived in France in the midst of the expatriates of the 1920s. Upon their return to America, he completed Tender Is the Night (1934), and he was at work on The Love of the Last Tycoon when he died in Hollywood in 1940.

出版社	Scribner
作者	F. Scott Fitzgerald