“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.
这本书的装帧虽然是平装,但其整体质感却透露出一种“经久耐用”的信念。我摸着封面那种略带纹理的触感,感觉它能够承受住反复的阅读和时间的考验。我有一个习惯,对于真正喜欢的书,我会反复阅读很多遍,甚至会留下一些自己的批注和折角作为记忆的标记。一些质量差的平装书,可能在第二次精读的时候,书脊就已经开始松动,甚至掉页。但我对这个版本抱持着乐观的态度,从侧面看,书脊的粘合度似乎相当扎实。这种对“耐用性”的追求,似乎也暗示了书中内容本身的持久价值——它不是那种读完一次就束之高阁的“快餐式”读物,而是那种值得我们反复咀嚼、每次都能发掘出新意的经典潜质。我期待着,随着我阅读的深入,这本书的物理形态也能陪伴我度过相当长的一段时间,成为我书架上一个可靠的、长期的精神伙伴。
评分这本书的封面设计简直是艺术品,那种沉稳的灰色调配上恰到好处的字体排版,一下子就抓住了我的眼球。我拿到手的时候,那种平装本特有的轻盈感和纸张的质感,让人忍不住想立刻翻开。虽然我还没有开始深入阅读,但光是摆在书架上,它就散发着一种低调而强大的力量感,仿佛在无声地诉说着它所承载的故事的重量。我尤其欣赏作者在选择封面插图上的克制,没有使用过于煽情或直白的画面,而是选择了一种更具象征意义的视觉语言,这让我对内文的叙事风格充满了期待——我猜想,这本书不会用廉价的煽情来打动读者,而是会用扎实的文本去触及灵魂深处。这种对细节的打磨,从外在的装帧就能窥见一斑,足以说明出版社对这本书的重视程度。我非常期待能在通勤的路上,或者一个安静的周末下午,沉浸在这本书营造的独特氛围中,享受那种纯粹的阅读体验,而不是被花哨的包装分散注意力。它给我的第一印象是,这是一本值得细细品味的,有深度的作品。
评分从我初步翻阅的几页来看,文字的排版和字号的选择,体现出一种对读者视力的极大尊重。许多当代出版物为了节省成本或追求视觉上的“紧凑感”,会将字号弄得偏小,阅读时间一长眼睛就非常容易疲劳。然而,这本书的版式明显经过了精心的设计,行距和段落之间的留白都处理得恰到好处,保证了阅读的流畅性,没有丝毫的拥挤感。这种对阅读舒适度的考量,在如今快节奏的阅读环境中显得尤为可贵。我猜测,作者或译者在构建文本结构时,可能就考虑到了信息传递的节奏感,而优秀的排版设计无疑是这种节奏感的物理延伸。我尝试着快速浏览了几个段落,发现那些复杂的概念或长句,在这样的排版下,似乎也变得更容易被大脑吸收了。这表明,这本书的出版方在制作过程中,是将“阅读体验”置于一个非常高的优先级上的,而非仅仅关注成本控制。
评分我之所以对这本英文原版平装书抱有极高的期待,很大程度上也源于对其“原版”身份的尊重。购买英文原版,意味着我追求的是作者最原始的语汇、最直接的修辞和最未经过滤的情感表达。平装的设定,更让我有了一种与作者“零距离”对话的感觉,仿佛直接拿到了作者在写作时的那个版本,少了一些翻译过程中可能产生的文化损耗或理解上的偏差。这种纯粹的文本接触,对于理解一个复杂议题的细微差别至关重要。我深信,文学或非虚构作品的力量,很大程度上存在于其语言的精妙结构之中,而选择保留原汁原味的版本,是我对这份力量最大的致敬。我准备好了,用我自己的英语水平去解构每一个句子,去体会那些在翻译中难以完全传达的语气和潜台词。这不仅仅是一本书,更像是一场智力上的挑战和精神上的洗礼,而平装本的轻便,则确保了这场挑战可以随时随地开始。
评分这本书的装帧选择,特别是平装的形式,真的非常贴合我个人的阅读习惯。我是一个喜欢带着书到处跑的人,硬壳书虽然有收藏价值,但在日常携带中总是显得有些笨重,容易磕碰。而这个平装版,拿在手里感觉刚刚好,既有足够的韧性应对日常的翻阅和折叠,又不会给背包增加太多负担。那种书脊在初次翻开时发出的轻微“吱呀”声,对我来说简直是阅读仪式感的一部分。我注意到纸张的磅数控制得也很好,墨水不会轻易透过去,保证了阅读的清晰度。更重要的是,平装本往往意味着更亲民的价格,让更多普通读者有机会接触到这样有价值的作品,这本身也是一种‘普及’的力量的体现。我喜欢这种不张扬,但极其注重实用性和阅读舒适度的设计哲学。它告诉我,这本书是为“阅读”本身服务的,而不是仅仅为了“展示”。我已经在计划,接下来的几次短途旅行,它将是我的唯一伴侣,那种在咖啡馆里,伴着背景音乐翻开它时的画面,已经在我脑海里成型了。
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