The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, returns with a collection of unsparing short stories

出版者:Doubleday

作者:Mark Haddon

页数:320

出版时间:2016-5-5

价格:USD 26.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780385540759

图书标签:英国小说Literature悬疑小说外国文学British英文推理

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Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, returns with a collection of unsparing short stories

In the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty .45; in "The Island," a mythical princess is abandoned on an island in the midst of war; in "The Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear," a cadre of sheltered artistocrats sets out to find adventure in a foreign land and finds the gravest dangers among themselves. These are but some of the men and women who fill this searingly imaginative and emotionally taut collection of short stories by Mark Haddon, that weaves through time and space to showcase the author's incredible versatility.

Yet the collection achieves a sum that is greater than its parts, proving itself a meditation not only on isolation and loneliness but also on the tenuous and unseen connections that link individuals to each other, often despite themselves. In its titular story, the narrator describes with fluid precision a catastrophe that will collectively define its victims as much as it will disperse them—and brilliantly lays bare the reader's appetite for spectacle alongside its characters'. Cut with lean prose and drawing inventively from history, myth, fairy tales, and, above all, the deep well of empathy that made his three novels so compelling, The Pier Falls reveals a previously unseen side of the celebrated author.

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买之前为了确认下是否值得购买查看了美亚的点评，评分很高。此书共收纳了9个短篇，其中两篇没仔细阅读. 剩下的7篇都属于可读性很强的作品，写法细腻，构思巧妙，下次找此人的长篇看看.

买之前为了确认下是否值得购买查看了美亚的点评，评分很高。此书共收纳了9个短篇，其中两篇没仔细阅读. 剩下的7篇都属于可读性很强的作品，写法细腻，构思巧妙，下次找此人的长篇看看.

买之前为了确认下是否值得购买查看了美亚的点评，评分很高。此书共收纳了9个短篇，其中两篇没仔细阅读. 剩下的7篇都属于可读性很强的作品，写法细腻，构思巧妙，下次找此人的长篇看看.