TOM BOLER
Book ID/图书代码： 11320005B03581
English Summary/英文概要： Nine-year-old Tom Boler comes back from school one day to find his mother gone. What happens next is his story - told in his naive, trusting, baffled voice - as he negotiates a new, perilous, adult world. He is visited by Uncle Dustman, who stores the rubbish bags he collects in Tom’s house, while watching donkey-porn on the video; he is adopted briefly by Primula Spatula, a posh dipsomaniac, and has a run-in with bad boys in the park and a corpse in a burgled house, before being retrieved by the mysterious Boxford. Boxy is black and gay and claims he’s been told to look after Tom. He lives with Roxy, who is also black, and also a man, but who dresses as a woman. ’I’m Roxy,’ he says, ’I’m your new mum.’ Then Tom’s real adventures begin. One of the funniest and most original stylists to have emerged in British fiction during the past decade, Daren King looks obliquely at the inner-city world of ecstasy, sexual promiscuity and sexual confusion, class conflict and poverty - all through the wide-open eyes of nine-year-old Tom: very innocent, but very eager to try it all.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是Boxy An Star的精彩姐妹篇。一天，九岁的Tom Boler从学校放学回来发现自己的妈妈不见了，接下来就是Tom用他稚嫩，迷惑，信赖的声音来阐述他自己的故事，叙述他如何闯荡这样一个陌生、危机四伏的成人世界。垃圾工叔叔来拜访他了，这位叔叔专门收垃圾袋，又对驴子特痴迷；他还被时髦，嗜酒如命的Primula Spatula领养了一段时间，后来在公园里的时候他和一帮坏男孩争执了起来，得到神秘的Boxy帮助得以解脱-----Boxy在剧院里工作，和Roxy生活。很快Tom就融入到了他们这个充满各种秘密的陌生家庭里，还接触到了他们的很多朋友，其中就有阴险的Robert Tablet，TOM真正的冒险开始了。
Daren King称得上是近十年里英国文坛最幽默最具原创力的领军人物，他透过一位年仅九岁的儿童的眼睛间接地分析这样一个肆虐着性乱交，性迷茫，阶级冲突和贫困等问题的旧城区----虽然TOM很天真，他却非常渴望常识这些。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Daren King was born in 1972 in Harlow, Essex. He was educated at Bath Spa University College, Bath, where he graduated in Creative Studies. He is the author of two previous novels, Boxy an Star, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, and Jim Giraffe.
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