COME IN AT THE DOOR (LIBRARY ALABAMA CLASSICS)
Book ID/图书代码： 06000015B79338
English Summary/英文概要： His debut novel, Company K, introduced William March to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic Graham Greene wrote: “It is the only war book I have read which has found a new form to fit the novelty of the protest. The prose is bare, lucid, without literary echoes.” After Company K, March brought his same unerring style to a cycle of novels and short stories—his “Pearl County” series—inspired in part by his childhood in the vicinity of Mobile, Alabama. Come In at the Door is the first novel in that series.
Before dawn one morning, little Chester is taken by his nurse, his father’s mistress, to the courthouse in Athlestan, a county seat in the Deep South. A sensitive and impressionable boy, Chester watches in horror while one of his father’s mixed-race servants is hanged as punishment for killing a hunchback he believed had “laid a conjure” on him.
The apathy of the townspeople toward the servant’s suffering and execution play a vital part in Chester’s fascinating development. Throughout his conventional childhood and rambunctious manhood in a port town, the gruesome memory of the Athlestan gallows hovers just below the surface of his mind. He recalls the gruesome details only at his father’s death, when the book sweeps forward to its shattering denouement.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说处女作《K公司》将William March推向了读者的视野，作为一名颇具天赋的现代小说作家，March的作品受到了诸多好评。继《K公司》之后，March又发表了系列小说《珍珠县》，延续了其一贯的精准风格，《进门》是该系列的第一部小说，该系列小说的写作部分受到了作者童年时期在阿拉巴马附近地区的启发。
一天清晨，年幼的Chester被其护士（父亲的情人）带到当地法院，目睹了父亲的一名仆人遭受绞刑的场景。
镇上的人们对于仆人的遭遇无动于衷，他们冷漠的表情以及绞刑执行的过程给切斯特的成长带来了巨大的影响。在他平凡的童年时光以及之后跌宕的成人期间，阴森恐怖的记忆一直萦绕在其心头，直到父亲过世时，Chester才回忆其那些恐怖的细节……（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“William March是世界经典现代作家之一，其成就可媲美福克纳，也是当下不为人知的一名天才作家。”—— Alistair Cooke
“William March is one of the world’s classic modern writers, a whole ionosphere above Faulkner, and the unrecognized genius of our time.”—Alistair Cooke, A William March Omnibus
About the Author/作者介绍： William Edward Campbell，在文学界被称为William March，1893年出生于美国莫比尔。幼时在阿拉巴马的小镇上度过了传统平凡的童年。在阿拉巴马大学攻读几年法律后，March加入了美国海军陆战队，目睹了一战中在法国的几场艰苦的战役。战后，March撰写了《K公司》，大获成功，之后，开始创作一系列短篇小说。William Edward Campbell, known to the literary world as William March, was born in 1893 in Mobile. He experienced a conventional southern childhood in the small towns of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. After some years of studying law at the University of Alabama and later at Valparaiso University, March enlisted in the US Marine Corps and saw action in some of its hardest campaigning in World War I in France. As a result of his actions specifically during an assault on Blanc Mont, March received the French Croix de Guerre and both the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross for valor. After the war, he authored Company K, whose success allowed him to devote himself to writing a large body of short stories, and a series of remarkable novels.
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