“Just Mercy is every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so. . . . [It] demonstrates, as powerfully as any book on criminal justice that I’ve ever read, the extent to which brutality, unfairness, and racial bias continue to infect criminal law in the United States. But at the same time that [Bryan] Stevenson tells an utterly damning story of deep-seated and widespread injustice, he also recounts instances of human compassion, understanding, mercy, and justice that offer hope. . . . Just Mercy is a remarkable amalgam, at once a searing indictment of American criminal justice and a stirring testament to the salvation that fighting for the vulnerable sometimes yields.”—David Cole, The New York Review of Books
“A searing, moving and infuriating memoir . . . Bryan Stevenson may, indeed, be America’s Mandela. For decades he has fought judges, prosecutors and police on behalf of those who are impoverished, black or both. . . . Injustice is easy not to notice when it affects people different from ourselves; that helps explain the obliviousness of our own generation to inequity today. We need to wake up. And that is why we need a Mandela in this country.”—Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
“Unfairness in the justice system is a major theme of our age. . . . This book brings new life to the story by placing it in two affecting contexts: [Bryan] Stevenson’s life work and the deep strain of racial injustice in American life. . . . You don’t have to read too long to start cheering for this man. Against tremendous odds, Stevenson has worked to free scores of people from wrongful or excessive punishment, arguing five times before the Supreme Court. . . . The book extols not his nobility but that of the cause, and reads like a call to action for all that remains to be done. . . . The message of the book, hammered home by dramatic examples of one man’s refusal to sit quietly and countenance horror, is that evil can be overcome, a difference can be made. Just Mercy will make you upset and it will make you hopeful. . . . Stevenson has been angry about [the criminal justice system] for years, and we are all the better for it.”—Ted Conover, The New York Times Book Review
“Inspiring . . . a work of style, substance and clarity . . . Stevenson is not only a great lawyer, he’s also a gifted writer and storyteller.”—The Washington Post
“As deeply moving, poignant and powerful a book as has been, and maybe ever can be, written about the death penalty.”—The Financial Times
“Brilliant.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Not since Atticus Finch has a fearless and committed lawyer made such a difference in the American South. Though larger than life, Atticus exists only in fiction. Bryan Stevenson, however, is very much alive and doing God’s work fighting for the poor, the oppressed, the voiceless, the vulnerable, the outcast, and those with no hope. Just Mercy is his inspiring and powerful story.”—John Grisham
“Bryan Stevenson is one of my personal heroes, perhaps the most inspiring and influential crusader for justice alive today, and Just Mercy is extraordinary. The stories told within these pages hold the potential to transform what we think we mean when we talk about justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
“A distinguished NYU law professor and MacArthur grant recipient offers the compelling story of the legal practice he founded to protect the rights of people on the margins of American society. . . . Emotionally profound, necessary reading.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review, Kirkus Prize Finalist)
“A passionate account of the ways our nation thwarts justice and inhumanely punishes the poor and disadvantaged.”—Booklist (starred review)
“From the frontlines of social justice comes one of the most urgent voices of our era. Bryan Stevenson is a real-life, modern-day Atticus Finch who, through his work in redeeming innocent people condemned to death, has sought to redeem the country itself. This is a book of great power and courage. It is inspiring and suspenseful—a revelation.”—Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns
“Words such as important and compelling may have lost their force through overuse, but reading this book will restore their meaning, along with one’s hopes for humanity.”—Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize–winning author ofMountains Beyond Mountains
“Bryan Stevenson is America’s young Nelson Mandela, a brilliant lawyer fighting with courage and conviction to guarantee justice for all. Just Mercy should be read by people of conscience in every civilized country in the world to discover what happens when revenge and retribution replace justice and mercy. It is as gripping to read as any legal thriller, and what hangs in the balance is nothing less than the soul of a great nation.”—Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor of law at New York University Law School. He has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme Court, and won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color. He has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant.
這本書的封麵設計簡直是藝術品,那種沉穩的灰色調配上恰到好處的字體排版,一下子就抓住瞭我的眼球。我拿到手的時候,那種平裝本特有的輕盈感和紙張的質感,讓人忍不住想立刻翻開。雖然我還沒有開始深入閱讀,但光是擺在書架上,它就散發著一種低調而強大的力量感,仿佛在無聲地訴說著它所承載的故事的重量。我尤其欣賞作者在選擇封麵插圖上的剋製,沒有使用過於煽情或直白的畫麵,而是選擇瞭一種更具象徵意義的視覺語言,這讓我對內文的敘事風格充滿瞭期待——我猜想,這本書不會用廉價的煽情來打動讀者,而是會用紮實的文本去觸及靈魂深處。這種對細節的打磨,從外在的裝幀就能窺見一斑,足以說明齣版社對這本書的重視程度。我非常期待能在通勤的路上,或者一個安靜的周末下午,沉浸在這本書營造的獨特氛圍中,享受那種純粹的閱讀體驗,而不是被花哨的包裝分散注意力。它給我的第一印象是,這是一本值得細細品味的,有深度的作品。
评分從我初步翻閱的幾頁來看,文字的排版和字號的選擇,體現齣一種對讀者視力的極大尊重。許多當代齣版物為瞭節省成本或追求視覺上的“緊湊感”,會將字號弄得偏小,閱讀時間一長眼睛就非常容易疲勞。然而,這本書的版式明顯經過瞭精心的設計,行距和段落之間的留白都處理得恰到好處,保證瞭閱讀的流暢性,沒有絲毫的擁擠感。這種對閱讀舒適度的考量,在如今快節奏的閱讀環境中顯得尤為可貴。我猜測,作者或譯者在構建文本結構時,可能就考慮到瞭信息傳遞的節奏感,而優秀的排版設計無疑是這種節奏感的物理延伸。我嘗試著快速瀏覽瞭幾個段落,發現那些復雜的概念或長句,在這樣的排版下,似乎也變得更容易被大腦吸收瞭。這錶明,這本書的齣版方在製作過程中,是將“閱讀體驗”置於一個非常高的優先級上的,而非僅僅關注成本控製。
评分這本書的裝幀選擇,特彆是平裝的形式,真的非常貼閤我個人的閱讀習慣。我是一個喜歡帶著書到處跑的人,硬殼書雖然有收藏價值,但在日常攜帶中總是顯得有些笨重,容易磕碰。而這個平裝版,拿在手裏感覺剛剛好,既有足夠的韌性應對日常的翻閱和摺疊,又不會給背包增加太多負擔。那種書脊在初次翻開時發齣的輕微“吱呀”聲,對我來說簡直是閱讀儀式感的一部分。我注意到紙張的磅數控製得也很好,墨水不會輕易透過去,保證瞭閱讀的清晰度。更重要的是,平裝本往往意味著更親民的價格,讓更多普通讀者有機會接觸到這樣有價值的作品,這本身也是一種‘普及’的力量的體現。我喜歡這種不張揚,但極其注重實用性和閱讀舒適度的設計哲學。它告訴我,這本書是為“閱讀”本身服務的,而不是僅僅為瞭“展示”。我已經在計劃,接下來的幾次短途旅行,它將是我的唯一伴侶,那種在咖啡館裏,伴著背景音樂翻開它時的畫麵,已經在我腦海裏成型瞭。
评分我之所以對這本英文原版平裝書抱有極高的期待,很大程度上也源於對其“原版”身份的尊重。購買英文原版,意味著我追求的是作者最原始的語匯、最直接的修辭和最未經過濾的情感錶達。平裝的設定,更讓我有瞭一種與作者“零距離”對話的感覺,仿佛直接拿到瞭作者在寫作時的那個版本,少瞭一些翻譯過程中可能産生的文化損耗或理解上的偏差。這種純粹的文本接觸,對於理解一個復雜議題的細微差彆至關重要。我深信,文學或非虛構作品的力量,很大程度上存在於其語言的精妙結構之中,而選擇保留原汁原味的版本,是我對這份力量最大的緻敬。我準備好瞭,用我自己的英語水平去解構每一個句子,去體會那些在翻譯中難以完全傳達的語氣和潛颱詞。這不僅僅是一本書,更像是一場智力上的挑戰和精神上的洗禮,而平裝本的輕便,則確保瞭這場挑戰可以隨時隨地開始。
评分這本書的裝幀雖然是平裝,但其整體質感卻透露齣一種“經久耐用”的信念。我摸著封麵那種略帶紋理的觸感,感覺它能夠承受住反復的閱讀和時間的考驗。我有一個習慣,對於真正喜歡的書,我會反復閱讀很多遍,甚至會留下一些自己的批注和摺角作為記憶的標記。一些質量差的平裝書,可能在第二次精讀的時候,書脊就已經開始鬆動,甚至掉頁。但我對這個版本抱持著樂觀的態度,從側麵看,書脊的粘閤度似乎相當紮實。這種對“耐用性”的追求,似乎也暗示瞭書中內容本身的持久價值——它不是那種讀完一次就束之高閣的“快餐式”讀物,而是那種值得我們反復咀嚼、每次都能發掘齣新意的經典潛質。我期待著,隨著我閱讀的深入,這本書的物理形態也能陪伴我度過相當長的一段時間,成為我書架上一個可靠的、長期的精神夥伴。
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