WOMAN WITH A BLUE PENCIL: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 10820015B81205
English Summary/英文概要： What becomes of a character cut from a writer’s working manuscript?
On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Sam Sumida, a Japanese-American academic, has been thrust into the role of amateur P.I., investigating his wife’s murder, which has been largely ignored by the LAPD. Grief stricken by her loss, disoriented by his ill-prepared change of occupation, the worst is yet to come. . . . Sam discovers that, inexplicably, he has become not only unrecognizable to his former acquaintances but that all signs of his existence (including even the murder he’s investigating) have been erased. Unaware that he is a discarded, fictional creation, he resumes his investigation in a world now characterized not only by his own sense of isolation but by wartime fear.
Meantime, Sam’s story is interspersed with chapters from a pulp spy novel that features an L.A.-based Korean P.I. with jingoistic and anti-Japanese, post December 7th attitudes – the revised, politically and commercially viable character for whom Sumida has been excised.
Behind it all is the ambitious, 20-year-old Nisei author who has made the changes, despite the relocation of himself and his family to a Japanese internment camp. And, looming above, is his book editor in New York, who serves as both muse and manipulator to the young author—the woman with the blue pencil, a new kind of femme fatale.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 珍珠港遭袭前夕，山姆•墨田，一位日本的美国学者，被推入到一位私家侦探的角色，追查一起很有可能已经被洛杉矶警局忽略的，他的亡妻谋杀案。 痛失爱妻，顿时让这位书生病急乱投医地打算转行，山姆莫名其妙地发现，不只是他已经不识从前的熟人，还包括他存在于世的 (包括甚至他正在调查这起谋杀案) 所有迹象都已都被清除。 无意间他成为了一个被丢弃的，虚构的创作人物，他本人在现实世界的个人履历记录，不仅来自他自己的孤立无援，而且还隐藏着战时恐惧的世界中。
让事情更糟的是，山姆发现自己与一位有着强烈爱国主义和反日的韩裔美国人私家侦探交手，对墨田来讲，不管是从政治上和商业上，他都已经不存在了 .....
在这所有的一切事情背后，是一位年仅22岁的第二代日裔美国人所篡改的一切，尽管他被迁往日本拘留营。即将登场的是纽约的一个编辑，这位妙笔生花的年轻作家，是一位女编辑，一位真正的蛇蝎美人。（Sandy）
Awards/获奖情况：Nominated for an Edgar Award
Gordon McAlpine, who is nominated for an Edgar Award for Woman With a Blue Pencil, Best Paperback Original by the Mystery Writers of America!
“McAlpine’s creative talent is rare and this novel is an exceptional literary treat.”- Shelf Awareness STARRED review
“A masterpiece of metafiction….I don’t know the last time I read a book that made me think that
much AND had that good of an ending.”-MysteryPeople PICK OF THE MONTH
“A masterly critique of the mystery novel…McAlpine’s greatest accomplishment is that the book works both as a conventional mystery story and as a deconstruction of the genre’s ideology:
whichever strand readers latch on to, the parallel stories pack a brutal punch.”- Publishers Weekly BOXED, STARRED review
“Woman with a Blue Pencil is a brilliantly structured labyrinth of a novel—something of an
enigma wrapped in a mystery, postmodernist in its experimental bravado and yet satisfyingly
well-grounded in the Los Angeles of its World War II era. Gordon McAlpine has imagined a
totally unique work of ’mystery’ fiction—one that Kafka, Borges, and Nabokov, as well as
Dashiell Hammett, would have appreciated.”—JOYCE CAROL OATES
“Not like any other murder mystery now in print…. Intricate. Unique…a definite work of art.”- Suspense Magazine
“Hard-boiled fiction fans could use more books like [McAlpine’s]: novels that work on multiple
levels, and take the genre to such strange and fascinating places.”- Paste Magazine
“A truly original crime novel.” - Booklist
mystery.”- Reviewing the Evidence
About the Author/作者介绍： Gordon McAlpine is the author of Hammett Unwritten and numerous other novels, as well as a middle-grade trilogy, The Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe. Additionally, he is coauthor of the nonfiction book The Way of Baseball, Finding Stillness at 95 MPH. He has taught creative writing and literature at U.C. Irvine, U.C.L.A., and Chapman University. He lives with his wife Julie in southern California.
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