MY FATHER THE PORNOGRAPHER (PREVIOUSLY A DESK, A RIFLE AND EIGHTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS OF PORN)

Book ID/图书代码： 12844015B80530

English Summary/英文概要： The title lists Chris Offutt’s exact inheritance after his father, a well-known pornographer in the ‘70s, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Chris’s father, Andrew Offutt, was the author of 143 soft-porn novels, published under a variety of names, which he wrote from his house in the Kentucky hills, in a home office no-one dared intrude upon, with his wife serving as his typist. Upon his death it fell to Chris to pack up the house and help his mother move out – during that time Chris became the archeologist of his father’s life, a man he’d always feared, never understood. Going through his father’s desk allowed Chris to gain that understanding, even to empathise, but he also discovered that pornography was the least of his father’s obsessions. As Chris writes: “My father often said that if not for pornography he’d have become a serial killer.” It was a comment that puzzled his family, but in the latter stages of packing up his father’s “legacy” Chris comes to make sense of it. This is American Hustle meets The Liar’s Club; American Hustle for the era it evokes, its clothes, its chaos and its freedoms and The Liar’s Club in that it’s a carefully observed, utterly riveting memoir of a deeply complicated family, headed by a secretive, dictatorial father. Yet Chris doesn’t judge his father, and his determination to avoid doing so makes for the most touching sections of the memoir. It’s also a book about a small-town Kentucky childhood, where Chris found happiness roaming the hills and woods with his friends, where he was able to temporarily escape his complicated home life.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 标题列出了克里斯•奥法特来自他父亲的精准的遗传，他父亲是上世纪70年代著名的色情演员，死于肝硬化。克里斯的父亲，安得烈•奥法特是143本软色情小说的作者，并以不同的名字发表，他在位于肯塔基山的房子里写作，他的妻子是他的打字员并且没人敢来打扰。在他死后，轮到克里斯收拾房子，帮妈妈搬出去——当时克里斯成了研究他父亲一生的考古学家，他总是对父亲充满敬畏，并且不理解他。父亲的书桌让克里斯开始理解父亲，甚至同情，但他也发现，色情只是他父亲沉迷的事物中最不起眼的。正如克里斯写道：“我的父亲经常说，如果不是色情，他将成为一个连环杀手。”这是一个让他的家庭感到困惑的发言，但在后期包装他父亲的“遗产”时，克里斯明白了它的意思。这是《美国喧嚣》遇到了《骗子俱乐部》；《美国喧嚣》唤起了一个时代，它的衣服，它的混沌及其自由，《骗子俱乐部》是一个仔细的观察，是完全引人入胜的关于一个深刻复杂的，由神秘、专横的父亲领导的家庭的回忆录。然而，克里斯并没有评价自己的父亲，而他避免这样做的决心是这本回忆录中最感人的部分。这也是一本关于在小城镇肯塔基的童年的书，克里斯在那里和他的朋友们在山间和树林漫步中找到了幸福，在那里他能暂时逃离他复杂的家庭生活。(LNL)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 克里斯•奥法特是一位美国作家。他的短篇和长篇小说最广为人知，但他还出版了两部回忆录和纪实文章，2005年，他在迈克尔•沙邦的漫画书集中创作了一个故事，以及在诺瓦尔选集中也有作品。他为电视剧《真实血液和杂草》写了几集剧集。

Chris Offutt is an American writer. His is most widely known for his short stories and novels, but he has also published two memoirs, nonfiction articles and, in 2005, had a story in a comic book collection by Michael Chabon and another in the anthology Noir. He has written episodes for the TV series True Blood and Weeds.

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Spanish – Editorial Melusina

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