WELCOME THIEVES: STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 00342516B88984
English Summary/英文概要： Black humor mixed with pathos is the hallmark of the twelve stories in this adult debut collection from a master writer of comic and inventive YA novels.
A young man spends a whole day lying naked on the floor of his apartment, conversing casually with his roommates, pondering the past, considering the lives being lived around him. In the odd and funny, sad yet somehow hopeful conceit of Sean Beaudoin’s story “Exposure,” are all the elements that make his debut collection, Welcome Thieves, a standout. In twelve virtuosic stories, Beaudoin trains his absurdist’s eye on the ridiculous perplexities of adult life. From muddling through after the apocalypse (“Base Omega Has Twelve Dictates”) to the knowing smirk of “You Too Can Graduate with a Degree in Contextual Semiotics,” Beaudoin’s stories are edgy and profane, bittersweet and angry, bemused and sardonic. Yet they’re always tinged with heart.
Beaudoin’s novels have been praised for their playfulness and complexity, for the originality and beauty of their language. Those same qualities, and much more, are on full display in Welcome Thieves, a book that should find devout fans in readers who worship at the altar of George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, and Sam Lipsyte
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部成人小说合集中收录了12个体现黑色幽默的短篇小说，出自幽默和创意青少年小说的优秀作家之手。
一个年轻人全裸着在自家公寓地板上躺了一整天，和室友闲聊两句，回忆过去，想一想身边的各色人等。在作者创作的这个奇怪又有趣、伤感又带有希望的故事《暴露》中，体现出了让他的这部作品集鹤立鸡群的所有元素。在12个短小精辟的故事中，作者将他荒诞的眼光投向了成人世界中各种荒诞的复杂性。他讲述的故事前卫又世俗，苦乐参半又带些愤怒，令人困惑又略带讽刺。但这些故事都非常用心。
作者的小说因其内容的娱乐性和复杂性以及其语言的原创性和美感而备受推崇。这些特质及其他特点都在本书中表现得淋漓尽致，定能吸引George Saunders、Kurt Vonnegut、Sam Lipsyte等读者的喜爱。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“小说集中的故事惊险刺激，颇具可读性，就像是一串鞭炮，以紧张的叙事节奏嘶嘶作响并发出爆炸声，既果敢又精致。Beaudoin绝对是一位值得期待的作家。”——Jonathan Evison，作家，著有《这是你的人生，Harriet Chance》
“Sean Beaudoin的小说惊险刺激、引人入胜。他笔下的主人公非常真实。本书是一部杰出且受人欢迎的作品。”——Sam Lipsyte，作家，著有《欢乐部分》
“Beaudoin的故事幽默、迷人、私密，当然也是黑暗的，但不是那种读到一半需要小憩一下恢复体力的作品。相反地，读完这些短小精悍的故事之后我比之前更加清醒，并对身处这样一个奇怪的世界中而倍感欣慰。”——Peter Mountford，作家，著有《忧郁的科学》
“有趣、果敢、警醒、甜蜜——本书为心灵和感官注入了活力。作者的文字颇具原创性，节奏很快又贴近现实。”——Rebecca Lee，作家，著有《山猫及其他故事》
“Thrilling and mercilessly readable, the stories in Welcome Thieves go off like a string of firecrackers, sizzling and popping with a narrative velocity that is equal parts grit and polish. Beaudoin is definitely a writer to watch.” —Jonathan Evison, author of This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
“Sean Beaudoin’s stories are funny and propulsive. The voices of his narrators are truly live. Welcome Thieves is a remarkable and welcome book.” —Sam Lipsyte, author of The Fun Parts
“Welcome Thieves is a deviously spellbinding collection of short stories in which strange and beautiful worlds, creations of Sean Beaudoin’s dark and sometimes brutal imagination, emerge as part of a tapestry so finely woven that we don’t see the thread. In the end, we can only stand in awe of Beaudoin’s immense talent.” —Garth Stein, author of A Sudden Light
“Beaudoin’s stories are hilarious and charming, also intimate, and yes they’re also definitely dark, but not in a way that I needed to go take a regenerative nap in the middle of reading. No, I exited this brief avalanche of stories feeling even more awake, and full of delight in this ridiculous world we inhabit." —Peter Mountford, author of The Dismal Science
“Seattle’s Sean Beaudoin strides past his young-adult novelist niche with Welcome Thieves, a collection of 12 deliciously dark short stories. Get a sampling of Beaudoin’s ex-rocker vibe, which permeates each strange story with profanely humorous and raw musings on modern adulthood.” —Seattle Metropolitan Magazine
“Funny, daring, alarming, sweet— how this book fills the mind and the senses with life. Beaudoin’s language is so original and fast that it gets very close to experience, handles it so loyally and beautifully.”—Rebecca Lee, author of Bobcat and Other Stories
“(Beaudoin) illuminates in his reader the unseen, casting light in corners we did not even know were there, lighting up levels of feeling we either
About the Author/作者介绍： Sean Beaudoin，著有5部青少年小说，包括《感染者》《聪明的小傻瓜》。他还是TheWeeklings.com网站的创始编辑之一，并已经为该网站撰写了55篇文章。他的短篇小说和文章刊载于各大报刊杂志上。他目前和妻女住在西雅图。
Sean Beaudoin is the author of five young adult novels, including The Infects and Wise Young Fool. He is also a founding editor of the arts and culture website TheWeeklings.com, for which he has written more than fifty essays. Sean’s stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Onion, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Salon. He lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter.
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