EPITAPH: A NOVEL OF THE O.K. CORRAL
Book ID/图书代码： 06814015B86287
English Summary/英文概要： Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands. . . .
That was America in 1881.
All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26 when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest. Thirty seconds and thirty bullets later, three officers were wounded and three citizens lay dead in the dirt.
Wyatt Earp was the last man standing, the only one unscathed. The lies began before the smoke cleared, but the gunfight at the O.K. Corral would soon become central to American beliefs about the Old West.
Epitaph tells Wyatt’s real story, unearthing the Homeric tragedy buried under 130 years of mythology, misrepresentation, and sheer indifference to fact. Epic and intimate, this novel gives voice to the real men and women whose lives were changed forever by those fatal thirty seconds in Tombstone. At its heart is the woman behind the myth: Josephine Sarah Marcus, who loved Wyatt Earp for forty-nine years and who carefully chipped away at the truth until she had crafted the heroic legend that would become the epitaph her husband deserved.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部细节丰富、调查详实的历史小说堪称美国版的《伊利亚特》。这次，小说跟随Wyatt警长和Holiday医生来到了亚利桑那州的墓碑镇，OK牧场大决斗的地方。
1881年的美国正处于严重分裂时期——邪恶的政治斗争、无耻的党派媒体、半数民众深恶痛绝的总统、墨西哥边境地区蔓延的走私和帮派斗争……武装市民们决定坚守阵地，奋起反抗……终于，在10月26日下午，Holiday和Wyatt与墓碑镇的Clantons和 McLaurys针锋相对。原本只是一项简单的轻罪逮捕行动。在30秒打了30多发子弹之后，三个警察受伤，三个平民被杀死。Wyatt站到了最后，并毫发无伤。之后，有关OK牧场大决斗的各种谎言便开始传播，这也造就了美国人对老西部的核心音像。
小说讲述了Wyatt的真实故事，揭开了这个在传说、歪曲、冷漠之下埋藏了130年的荷马史诗般的悲剧，也表达了那些因为这场30秒的决斗被彻底改变人生轨迹的男男女女们的心声。故事的核心是传说背后的女人——49年来一直深爱着Wyatt的Josephine Sarah Marcus。她一直小心翼翼地研究这段真相，直到最后创作了英雄史诗般的传说，作为他丈夫应得的墓志铭。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“尽管此前有那么多关于Holiday医生和Wyatt警长的文学、电影作品，但Russell尖刻的反史诗、反浪漫小说却如史诗般宏达，又浪漫至极，令读者们欲罢不能。”——《科克斯评论》
“Russell通过本书告诉读者，OK牧场大决斗并非英雄的结尾，仅仅是一场从无知转向启蒙开化的为期几十年的全国性斗争之中可怕的30秒。”——《图书馆杂志》（星级评论）
“小说调查广泛翔实，文笔优美……Russell讲述了一个精巧完美的传说……一场精彩的表演。”——《华盛顿邮报》
小说入选了第2个2015最佳图书榜单：
http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattle-times-critics-best-books-of-2015/
“A magnificent sequel to Doc that represents a significant advance in her considerable narrative technique… Adroitly shifting points of view throughout, Russell assembles her cast in Tombstone, where her prodigious historical research illuminates the personalities and politics that propelled the combatants toward that corral.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Despite all that has been written and filmed about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, Russell’s pointedly anti-epic anti-romance is so epic and romantic that it whets the reader’s appetite for more.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Well-written and provocative, Doc is a book that will haunt you.” (Historical Novels Review)
“Russell shows how the gunfight at the OK Corral is not the end of a hero’s tale but just 30 terrible seconds in a decades-long, nationwide struggle to evolve out of ignorance into enlightenment.” (Library Journal (starred review))
“Epitaph peels back all the layers of the events leading up to and following America’s most storied gunfight, in a compelling, richly told narrative with complex characters, sharp context - and a number of parallels to today…a fully realized landscape with nuanced characters.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
“Russell breathes new life into the well-worn western saga of the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday’s infamous shoot-out in the Arizona Territory town of Tombstone… a raucously Hogarthian depiction of how the West was truly lived.” (Publishers Weekly)
“With vast amounts of research and a poetic prose line … Russell has crafted an epic tale … a stunning performance.” (Washington Post)
Her writing is so vivid it seems she must have been there. … As Russell says, it matters where a tale begins and ends and “who tells the story and why … That makes all the difference.” Russell has made a big difference in bringing this story to life again. (Seattle Times)
Russell catalogs [the action] with power and beauty and a calculating eye until, as a reader, …understand something primal about the making of famous moments: That the causes are never as simple as you want, and outcomes never as clean or clear.” (NPR Books)
“Mary Doria Russell has lifted the participants in the frontier’s most famous gunfight out of the realm of genre fiction and catapulted them into the realm of literature.” (Dallas Morning News)
Mary Doria Russell’s EPITAPH has now hit a second 2015 best list: http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattle-times-critics-best-books-of-2015/
About the Author/作者介绍： Mary Doria Russell，之前著有5本图书，《The Sparrow》《The Sparrow》《A Thread of Grace》《Dreamers of the Day》《Doc》均取得了巨大的商业成功。Russell是生物人类学博士，现居住在美国俄亥俄州的林德赫斯特。
Mary Doria Russell is the author of five previous books, The Sparrow, Children of God, A Thread of Grace, Dreamers of the Day, and Doc, all critically acclaimed commercial successes. Dr. Russell holds a PhD in biological anthropology. She lives in Lyndhurst, Ohio.
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