MIGHTY, MIGHTY
Book ID/图书代码： 12312516B87181
English Summary/英文概要： Mighty, Mighty is a modern day fable set in a crumbling metropolis riddled with urban poverty and violence. Dirty apartments, tattoo parlors, food kitchens – these are the markers of home for the struggling young adults around Chicago. Stefy is an artist at Ghost Town, the local tattoo shop, trying to provide for her younger sister Amanda and their ailing grandfather. Amanda is hoping for something better, seeking to escape a past riddled with addiction and an abusive relationship with Georgie. When he confronts her one drunken night at a dive bar, the situation turns violent: Amanda barely escapes with her life but Georgie lies dead on the bathroom floor. This one mistake puts the two sisters in the crosshairs of Georgie’s father, a twisted, corrupt ex-cop now out for revenge over the murder of his son. His quest for vengeance will make the neighborhoods of Chicago tremble, leaving no one untouched.
Mighty, Mighty is a harsh and realistic look at the struggle of two families desperately trying to get out from under the heavy boot of violence and poverty. Like the works of Richard Price and Dennis Lehane, the novel is a startling and accurate portrait of contemporary urban life.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说讲述了一个发生在充斥着贫困和暴力的大都市中的现代寓言故事。肮脏的公寓、纹身店、食品厨房——这些是芝加哥周边困苦年轻人生活的真实写照。Stefy是当地纹身店Ghost Town的纹身师，正努力工作供养妹妹Amanda和日渐衰弱的祖父。Amanda期待拥有更好的生活，想要逃离过去的成瘾生活和与Georgie的虐待关系。Georgie和Amanda在一个醉酒的夜晚发生了冲突，结果场面变得非常混乱，最后Amanda勉强活了下来，而Georgie却死在了浴室的地板上。这个错误让姐妹俩落入了Georgie父亲的视线。他过去是个腐败、变态的警察，现在要为儿子的谋杀报仇。他的复仇震动了整个芝加哥社区，没有人能够幸免。
本书以尖锐、现实的眼光审视了两个渴望摆脱暴力和贫困枷锁的家庭的挣扎和痛苦。和Richard Price、Dennis Lehane的作品一样，小说生动、准确地描绘了当代城市生活。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“Rudolph像纹身大师一样将血与墨完美融合，在这部小说中生动刻画了每一个复杂的人物，展现了他们痛苦的真实生活……”——洛杉矶书评
“这是一个有关贫困、暴力以及竭力摆脱贫困、暴力的都市传奇故事……Wally Rudolph对芝加哥的描绘深刻又令人不安，人物非常真实，令人难忘。小说文笔优美、节奏把握恰到好处，情节流畅。”——Book Riot
" Like a fine tattoo artist blending blood and ink, Rudolph engraves portraits of complicated individuals onto the rough skin of Mighty, Mighty with no antiseptic — only the recalcitrant images of real people in pain. . . A masterful sophomore effort (following the success of Rudolph’s Four Corners), Mighty, Mighty is a love story of human detritus in concrete jungles, intricately inked into a scarred, yet majestic tattoo. Fans of Barry Hannah, Daniel Woodrell, Denis Johnson, and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez will find it hard to put this novel down." — Los Angeles Review of Books
“A gritty urban tale of poverty, violence, and the desperate need to overcome both … Wally Rudolph’s depictions of Chicago are stark and unsettling, but his characters are authentic and impossible to forget. This is a finely crafted novel, rhythmic and flowing, from a writer to watch.” — Book Riot
“Wally Rudolph captures the dark and gritty underbelly of Chicago (including drug addicts, dive bars, sketchy tattoo parlors, and a corrupt cop seeking revenge). This is the actor’s second novel in as many years—you may recognize him from his stints on Sons of Anarchy and Hawaii 5-0—and he an adept voice at capturing the pain and violence of the impoverished.” — Los Angeles Magazine
About the Author/作者介绍： Wally Rudolph，《Four Corners》的作者，该部小说赢得了广泛的赞誉。Wally出生在加拿大，父母是牙买加人，曾经持续15年与非法毒品有染，导致从大学辍学。他的小说作品在各类文学期刊上发表。他毕业于芝加哥The Second City Conservatory，现在居住在洛杉矶。他是名演员，曾经出演《街头之王》《Bang Bang》《混乱之子》等电影、电视剧集。
Wally Rudolph is also the author of Four Corners, which won a considerable amount of praise. Born in Canada to Jamaican parents, Wally had a fifteen-year affair with illicit drugs that had him drop out of college and took him back and forth across the American Midwest. His fiction can be found in the literary journals Milk Money, Lines+Stars, Palooka, Slush Pile, The Brooklyner, and the anthology, Literary:Pasadena. A graduate of The Second City Conservatory in Chicago, he lives in Los Angeles and as an actor, he has appeared in films and TV shows like Street Kings, Bang Bang, and Sons of Anarchy.
Mighty, Mighty is a startling and accurate portrait of contemporary urban American life. I hope it heralds the impressive debut for Rudolph into the next generation of crime writers.
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