After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. She then went on to become New Zealand's most acclaimed writer. As she says more than once in this autobiography: 'My writing saved me.'

'One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ...A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective and imaginative power' Michael Holroyd, Sunday Times After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a yo...(展开全部)

'I knew nothing about football before knowing Cruyff.' Pep Guardiola Johan Cruyff is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in football history. Throughout his playing career, he was synonymous with Total Football, a style of play in which every player could play in any position on the pitch. Today, his philosophy lives on in teams across Europe, from Barcelona to Bayer...(展开全部)

约翰·克鲁伊夫（Johan Cruyff，1947.4.25－2016.3.24），荷兰足球运动员、教练员。 克鲁伊夫是足球史上具影响力的人物之一，是把球员和教练两件事都做到世界的足球传奇，人称“球圣”。球员时期，他是荷兰全攻全守足球的标志，让橙色风暴席卷全球；教练员时期，他是巴塞罗那俱乐部的教父，建立拉玛西亚青训营，带领巴萨获得一座欧冠奖杯，让巴萨真正走向辉煌。 没有他倡导的足球风格及哲学，就不会有瓜迪奥拉、温格、梅西或坎通纳。在很多人看来，西班牙足球近些年在俱乐部及国家队层面的成功，证明了克鲁伊夫对现代足球的影响。 在同肺癌短暂斗争之后，克鲁伊夫于2016年3月去世。 译者—— 陈文江，CCTV5《天下足球》栏目制片人。大学就读于北京广播学院外语系，主修国际新闻。自幼酷爱足球，1999年毕业后进入电视台体育频道工作，2000年加入《天下足球》栏目...(展开全部)

约翰·克鲁伊夫（Johan Cruyff，1947.4.25－2016.3.24），荷兰足球运动员、教练员。 克鲁伊夫是足球史上具影响力的人物之一，是把球员和教练两件事都做到世界的足球传奇，人称“球圣”。球员时期，他是荷兰全攻全守足球的标志，让橙色风暴席卷全球；教练员时期，他是巴塞罗那俱乐部的教父，建立拉玛西亚青训营，带领巴萨获得一座欧冠奖杯，让巴萨真正走向辉煌。 没有他倡导的足球风格及哲学，就不会有瓜迪奥拉、温格、梅西或坎通纳。在很多人看来，西班牙足球近些年在俱乐部及国家队层面的成功，证明了克鲁伊夫对现代足球的影响。 在同肺癌短暂斗争之后，克鲁伊夫于2016年3月去世。 译者—— 陈文江，CCTV5《天下足球》栏目制片人。大学就读于北京广播学院外语系，主修国际新闻。自幼酷爱足球，1999年毕业后进入电视台体育频道工作，2000年加入《天下足球》栏目...(展开全部)

'I knew nothing about football before knowing Cruyff.' Pep Guardiola Johan Cruyff is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in football history. Throughout his playing career, he was synonymous with Total Football, a style of play in which every player could play in any position on the pitch. Today, his philosophy lives on in teams across Europe, from Barcelona to Bayer...(展开全部)

This is an autobiography of the prominent Soviet-American nuclear physicist written in a style similar to that of the later Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Georgy Gamow was born in 1904 in Odessa into a family of schoolteachers. He studied physics at the University of Odessa (then the University of Novorossia) and later at the University of Leningrad, where he befriended Lev...(展开全部)

Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the nineteenth century. Trollope was born in 1815, the son of a formidable mother and a tragically unsuccessful father. Poor, ill-dressed, awk...(展开全部)