CALF: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 12312515B81929
English Summary/英文概要： The year was 1981. The US was entering a deep recession, Russia was the enemy, and John Hinckley, Jr.’s assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan shocked the nation. It was also the year author Andrea Kleine learned her close childhood friend had been violently murdered by her socialite mother, Leslie DeVeau. Both events took place in Washington, DC. Hinckley and Deveau were both sent to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, guilty by reason of insanity. It was there that they met, and later became lovers.
These two real-life and ultimately converging events inspired Kleine’s jaw-dropping, spine-tingling novel. Made up of dual narratives and told over the course of one year, Kleine’s account follows a fictionalized John Hinckley Jr. as he stalks a young actress in the lead-up to the assassination attempt, and eleven-year-old Tammy, whose friend is murdered in her sleep.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1981年的美国正处于经济大萧条之中，俄罗斯是其大敌，而约翰•欣克里刺杀总统里根的行动也震惊了整个美国。同年，安德里亚•凯恩得知她亲近的童年伙伴被她身为社会名流的母亲莱斯利•得沃残忍地杀害。两件凶杀案的发生地同在华盛顿，此二人皆因精神失常犯罪而被送往了圣伊丽莎白医院。医院就此成为了他们相遇相爱的地方。
这两件真实的最终彼此交错的案件给予了凯恩灵感，创作了这部不可思议的小说。以双线结构叙述一年时长的故事情节，凯恩在《牛犊》让读者了解约翰•欣克里因为迷恋年轻女明星而最终实施暗杀的心理历程，以及童年朋友，11岁的塔米，在睡梦中死于德沃之手的案件经过。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：PW将《牛犊》选作2015秋天的“图书小说奖”！“恐惧的感觉在每一页都蔓延开，而故事的结局让人非常不安、惊慌、却是非常棒的。对于喜欢情节曲折的读者来说，《牛犊》是你该珍藏的书籍。”
PW has it right in its review, picking CALF as one of its Fall 2015 Literary Fiction picks!: “Dread stalks every page, and the result is unsettling, scary, and often brilliant. For readers looking for a sharp, twisted narrative, this is a keeper.”
About the Author/作者介绍： 安德鲁亚•凯恩是一位作家和行为艺术家，其工作的内容包括舞蹈、剧院、电影、文学和跨学科项目。她曾获得过五次麦克道尔殖民地奖学金和纽约艺术基金会奖学金奖。安德鲁亚的论文曾被刊登在《洛杉矶书评》、《每日天才》、《现代NYFA》以及她的博客“舞者取胜”中。《牛犊》是安德鲁亚的第一本小说。
取材于真实生活的犯罪小说是非常流行的做法，同样成功的作品还有：艾丽莎•诺丁的《坦帕市》、汉娜•肯特的《殓葬仪式》、艾玛•多诺霍的《青蛙音乐》以及类似詹姆斯•艾洛尔的《黑色大丽花》和诺曼•米勒的《刽子手之歌》等经典作品。
Andrea Kleine is a writer and performance artist whose work spans dance, theater, film, literature, and interdisciplinary projects. She received five MacDowell Colony fellowships and the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship award. Her writing has been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Everyday Genius, NYFA Current, and on her blog, The Dancers Will Win. CALF is her first fiction.
FYI, crime novels inspired by real life crimes are an extremely popular genre and here are some examples of successful books with similar appeal that might have been published in your territory: Alissa Nutting’s Tampa, Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites, Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music and classics like James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song.
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