THE LAST DAYS OF VIDEO: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 12312515B78835
English Summary/英文概要： The video stores are dying. But most of you don’t care. You’ve got your Netflix and your Redbox and your DVR, so why deal with VHS tapes or scratched DVDs? Why deal with the grumpy guy at the worn-down independent video store?
Well that grumpy guy is Waring Wax, and he’s usually too drunk to worry about his declining business at Star Video, let alone his quickly evolving extinction in popular culture. But everything changes in his small college town when a bright and shiny Blockbuster Video opens nearby: Clearly, this means war.
So, Waring enlists the help of his two reluctant employees, wildly sexy Alaura and desperate virgin Jeff—who are almost as nuts as he is—to hatch a series of wild schemes to save their little store and fight against the corporate invaders.
Together, these three misfits try to save Star Video while confronting, among other things, Waring’s self-destructive tendencies, a life training cult, corporate bicycle gangs, and a Hollywood director who constantly sees the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock while in town shooting his latest film.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说主人公Waring Wax是一个脾气暴躁的人，他开了一家名叫Star Video的音像店。他常常喝得伶仃大醉，无暇关心自己日渐衰落的生意。直到附近新开了一家亮堂的Blockbuster Video音像店……
于是Waring和他两个店员——性感的Alaura和绝望的处男Jeff——共同炮制了一系列异想天开的计划拯救他们的小店，与“入侵者”进行对抗。其间，他们遇到了许多有趣的人和有趣的事……（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“阅读本书就好像是在和作者分享一个私密的笑话……本书幽默地呈现出了当今的文化，拥抱且嘲弄了对于怀旧和进步的矛盾看法。”——美国书商协会本周图书销售
“这是本好书！我几乎每页都要笑一笑。书中的人物特别新鲜，又带点伤感。应该把这本书放入时间胶囊里。本书就像是文学链条上失去的一环，关于一个真实的时代。”——Daniel Wallace，《大鱼》的作者
"[R]eading this book feels like sharing an inside joke with the author....This book hilariously takes on today’s culture, both embracing and mocking its often conflicting ideals of nostalgia and progress.”—ABA Bookselling This Week
"...what sets this debut novel apart is how Hawkins effortlessly reveals the inner workings of his characters....The novel is riddled with film references and easily lambastes the sneering superiority of cinephiles, while still preserving a sense of wonder for the magic of movies. The Last Days of Video is an unapologetic, quirky, and surprisingly moving elegy for the passing of the local rental hangouts." —Booklist
"The author has a good time gently poking fun at the video-store culture that produced Quentin Tarantino." — Publishers Weekly
“This is a wonderful book! I laughed at least once a page. And the characters are so fresh and sad and eager. This book should be put in a time capsule. The Last Days of Video is like the literary missing link, about a time when things were really real." —Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and The Kings and Queens of Roam
"The Last Days of Video is, as the title suggests, an elegy for an era, but it’s an era that’s going out with a lot of kicking and screaming. Funny, raucous, and deliciously irreverent, Jeremy Hawkins’ debut novel offers up an engaging cast of characters who bicker and lust and love their way through the roller coaster ride of Star Video’s final days. This generous, big-hearted novel is a joy to read." —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
"This is the Lucky Jim of video store novels. A comic page-turner—often really funny—with an originality and tenderness not often seen in first novels." —Clyde Edgerton, author of Killer Diller
“This hilarious novel manages to love, dissect, and make fun of our culture all at once. Jeremy Hawkins’ particular genius is in understanding that people are never more sympathetic than when they aren’t getting what they want. This whole book is saturated in loss, and yet I laughed through every page.” —Rebecca Lee, author of Bobcat and Other Stories
About the Author/作者介绍： Jeremy Hawkins是毕业于北卡罗莱纳大学威尔明顿的艺术硕士。他是提供在线编辑服务的平台The Distillery（distilleryediting.com）的创始人及主要编辑。他曾经在一家录像带连锁商店VisArt Video工作了将近10年。Jeremy Hawkins earned an MFA in Fiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the founder and lead editor of The Distillery (distilleryediting.com), a web-based editing service. He is also an independent bookseller at Flyleaf Books and teaches creative writing at the Carrboro ArtsCenter. And of course, he worked for almost ten years at VisArt Video, a family-owned chain of video stores in Chapel Hill/Durham, NC.
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