MOTHER OF SORROWS
Book ID/图书代码： 02330005B01295
English Summary/英文概要： In these ten interwoven stories, two adolescent brothers face a world in which their father has suddenly died, a world dominated by their beautiful and complicated mother. Thirty years later, one of the brothers–the only remaining survivor of a family he seeks both to leave behind and to preserve in words forever–narrates these precise and heartbreaking tales. Suffused with the beauty of Richard McCann’s extraordinary language, Mother of Sorrows introduces us to an elegant writer like no other in contemporary fiction.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 二次大戰後，50年代的美國，兩個正值青春期有同性戀傾向的少年Danny和Davis生長在一個十分傳統家庭，在突然遭逢父親病逝的噩耗後，原本看似已相當漂浮的人生隨即受控於他們那美麗及但性情多變的母親… 三十年後兩兄弟之一Danny，也是家族的唯一僅存著回想起這些年來所發生的事，透過書中十篇不同的感傷故事及描述自己如何為自己的人生走出不同的方向。(VL)
Awards/获奖情况：Winner of 2005 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
麥可‧康寧漢（Michael Cunningham）、柯姆‧托賓（Colm Toibin）安‧派契特(Ann Patchett)等作家齊聲推薦！ Rights sold:
Italian sold to Playground Libri
French sold to Editions des Deux Terres
Praise for Mother of Sorrows:
“Mother of Sorrows is almost unbearably beautiful. It is, purely and simply, the real thing — a work of fiction so intricately felt, so magnificently written, that it can stand unembarrassed beside the mystery of life itself.”---Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours 麥可‧康寧漢，著有《時時刻刻》
“Some of the cleanest, most elegant and unfussy prose I’ve read in ages. . . . [It] is, on one level, a gay coming-of-age narrative, and as such it ranks among the best. . . . But the ruling metaphors here are more universal: concealment and disclosure, assertion and invisibility.”---James Marcus, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“The voice in McCann’s Mother of Sorrows is purely his own — lyrical, melancholy, precise, refined.”---Newsday
“McCann holds such an exquisitely bright light over the landscape of 1950s suburban Maryland and the coming of age of his emotionally fragile, unnamed protagonist who appears in each interlocking story that the resulting book feels almost combustible. . . [His] prose is full of achingly sensual detail and imagery.”---The Washington Post Book World
About the Author/作者介绍： Richard McCann的作品曾在許多如《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic Monthly）、《君子》（Esquire）, Tin House《犁頭》〈Ploughshares〉等雜誌上發表。之前著有小說Ghost Letters及一本詩集。曾榮獲「美國藝術基金會」National Endowment for the Arts及普文斯鎮（Provincetown）「藝術工作中心」（Fine Arts Work Center）的獎助金。目前居住在華盛頓，除了平時的寫作外，也擔任華盛頓美國大學創意寫作的講師。http://www.richardmccann.net/
Richard McCann’s work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Tin House, and Ploughshares, and in many anthologies, including Best American Essays 2000. He is the author of Ghost Letters, a book of poems. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and from the Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundations. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he co-directs the graduate program in creative writing at American University.
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