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No Cure for Being Human

No Cure for Being Human

$480

ISBN:9780593230794
作者:Kate Bowler
出版社:Random House USA
出版日期:2022/10/04
尺寸:200x129x16mm

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It’s hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. Everyone wants to believe that they are headed toward good, better, best. But what happens when the life you hoped for is put on hold indefinitely?

Kate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices, until she discovered, at age thirty-five, that her body was wracked with cancer. In No Cure for Being Human, she searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of today’s “best life now” advice industry, which insists on exhausting positivity and on trying to convince us that we can out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. We are, she finds, as fragile as the day we were born.

With dry wit and unflinching honesty, Kate Bowler grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith as she tries to come to terms with her limitations in a culture that says anything is possible. She finds that we need one another if we’re going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in between—and there’s no cure for being human.

 

很難放棄這種感覺:你真正想要的生活只是遙不可及。夏天的海灘身材。迪士尼樂園之旅即將來臨。即將進行的促銷活動。每個人都願意相信自己正朝著好的、更好的、最好的方向前進。但當你所希望的生活被無限期擱置時會發生什麼?
 
凱特·鮑勒 (Kate Bowler) 相信生活是一系列無限的選擇,直到她三十五歲時發現自己的身體患有癌症。在《人類無藥可救》中,她挖掘了當今「最好的生活」諮詢行業的智慧(和荒謬),尋找前進的道路,該行業堅持耗盡積極性,並試圖說服我們,我們可以吃得更好,學習和表現超越我們的人性。她發現,我們就像我們出生的那一天一樣脆弱。
 
凱特鮑勒 (Kate Bowler) 憑藉著冷幽默和堅定的誠實,努力應對自己的診斷、野心和信仰,同時試圖接受自己在一切皆有可能的文化中的局限性。她發現,如果我們要說出真相,我們需要彼此:生活是美麗的,也是可怕的,充滿希望和絕望,以及介於兩者之間的一切——作為人類,沒有治癒的方法。

(文字整理/羅美文)

No Cure for Being Human

$480