The Pursuit of Happyness
作者：Gardner, Chris/ Troupe, Quincy/ Rivas, Mim Eichler
出版社：Harpercollins
出版日期：2006 年 11 月 01 日
語言別：英文
美金：14.95元
定價：523元 優惠價：9折471元
內容簡介
The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street. At the age of twenty, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city’s working homeless with his toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving from shelters, ”HO-tels”, and soup-lines. Never giving in to despair, Gardner makes an astonishing transformation from being part of the city’s invisible to being a powerful player in its financial district. Here is the story of a man who breaks his own family’s cycle of men abandoning their children, a story that appeals to the very essence of the American Dream. Read by Andre Blake
當幸福來敲門.導讀:
我曾淪落為無家可歸的遊民，帶著十九個月大的兒子住在車站公廁裡；但後來我卻成為第一個打進證券界的黑人，並登上華爾街王者的地位！我相信，只要全心貫注地勇敢向前走，各種挫敗都是成功的養分。現在，我真的走到夢想的最終點了！
在酒鬼繼父的暴力陰影下，克里斯的童年充滿了恐懼！鮮血與眼淚齊飛是常見的場景，因此小小年紀的克里斯在心中發誓：將來一定要當個好爸爸！長大後的克里斯曾加入海軍，也做過短暫的醫生夢，但女人先占滿了他的生活，結果卻是妻子和情人都離他遠去，只剩下幼子與他相依為命。克里斯想提供寶貝兒子更好的生活，但當個小業務員能賺多少錢？這時，在證券業工作的『法拉利男』出現了！他那部鮮紅的拉風跑車帶給克里斯空前的震撼，也讓克里斯立志做第一個打進這一行的黑人。
縱使克里斯衝勁十足，但開始時總是艱困萬分。他曾帶著一歲多的兒子睡辦公室，沒日沒夜地做電話訪問，最落魄時甚至住過捷運公廁、接受流鶯的幫助，還不得不去賣血，但他都靠著堅定的意志撐過去了。漸漸熟悉投資的要訣後，克里斯終於能夠買下自己的房子和法拉利跑車了，但他的夢想不僅於此，他決定開發從未有人涉足的市場：為黑人明星、企業家做資產管理。事實證明他的眼光獨到，生意興隆到讓他能夠自立門戶，經手的資產規模並高達數十億美金！現在，克里斯仍常回憶起推著嬰兒車走在顛簸街頭的辛酸日子，回首成功的路途漫漫，但當幸福來臨時，一切的付出都是值得的！
