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发表于2024-11-11
Invisible Boy pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
The smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her own weed-ridden family cemetery outside Manhattan. Determined to see that justice is served to the perpetrators, Madeline finds herself examining her own troubled personal history, and the sometimes hidden, sometimes all-too-public class and racial warfare that penetrates every level of society in the savage streets of New York City during the early 1990s. She is aided in her efforts by a colorful assemblage of friends, relatives and new acquaintances, each one representing a separate strand of the patchwork mosaic city politicians like to brag about. The result is a gripping narrative that relates the causes and consequences of a vicious crime to the wider relationships that connect and divide us all. In INVISIBLE BOY Cornelia Read depicts, with sensitivity, eloquence and powerful emotion, the unstable fault lines of family, friendship, and society at large.
科妮莉亞·瑞德(Cornelia Read)在加利福尼亞州紐約市和夏威夷長大,現居於伯剋利。
科妮莉亞·瑞德瞭解第一手的老派“盎格魯-撒剋遜、白人-新教”文化。科妮莉亞母親的傢族世代居住在牡蠣灣中心島上,而她是在那裏居住的第十代(也是最後的一代)人,隨後被背棄瞭嬉皮士精神並離異的的母親帶到大蘇爾附近。她的童年導師包括:蘇菲派教徒、衝浪運動員、單親媽媽、黑豹黨人、安塞爾·亞當斯(Ansel Adams)、逃避兵役的人、罷工農民,還有亨利·米勒(Henry Miller)最難對付的乒乓對手。
在十五歲那年,瑞德迴到瞭東部,寄宿學校畢業後又拿到大學的全額奬學金。後來在紐約的時候,她母親婚外戀的男朋友的妻子心懷怨懟,把他們曝光瞭,他們因此登上瞭《紐約郵報》(the New York Post)八卦版《第六頁》,被所有人驅逐齣瞭社交圈。她通過自己的努力,又慢慢迴到社交圈之中。
這位備受贊賞的作者著有作品《黑暗的領域》(A FIELD OF DARKNESS)、《瘋狂學校》(THE CRAZY SCHOOL)、《看不見的男孩兒》(INVISIBLE BOY)和最新的《灰燼榖》(Valley of Ashes)。這四部作品的主人公都是言語刻薄卻令人難忘的前社會名流馬德琳·黛爾。
更多作傢信息請見:www.corneliaread.com;www.nakedauthors.com 以及她與吉姆·伯恩(Jim Born)、保羅·萊文(Paul Levine)、帕蒂·斯邁利(Patty Smiley)和傑奎琳·溫斯皮爾(Jacqueline Winspear)的閤作博客。
瑞德曾憑藉Hungry Enough一文,獲得夏姆斯短片小說奬(the Shamus Award for best short story)。
瑞德對自傢社交名流的傳統非常厭惡,因此嫁給瞭一名可愛而普通的上班族。這位新晉作傢目前與丈夫和雙胞胎女兒居住在伯剋利。
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Invisible Boy pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024