ACTRESS

Book ID/图书代码： 11701219C00025

English Summary/英文概要： Norah Fitzmaurice, a writer of quiet books, looks back on the less than quiet life of her mother, the actress Katherine O’Dell. With her lilting accent and flaming red hair O’Dell seems the epitome of the Irish lyric heroine. She started as a child actress during the Second World War, touring Shakespeare around Irish country towns. In her late teens and early twenties she had a string of quick successes in London, New York and Hollywood, after which Norah was born and her career began to stall. Nearly thirty years later, O’Dell was arrested for an assault on a small time film producer, Boyd O’Neill, and committed to a mental hospital in Dublin. As she tells her mother’s story, Norah asks what made her mad, and she also wonders what her own origins might have been.

ACTRESS is a book about being nearly famous in a world that is less than fair. Epic in sweep and intimate in its effects, it gives an indelible portrait of the vulnerable female artist who is at once exploited and adored. That exploitation is also sexual: in the voice of Norah, ACTRESS argues for quietness, for love, and for the real.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 來自曼布克獎得獎作者ANNE ENRIGHT，
一個名演員女兒對於她母親隱密真相的追尋，
一個關於名氣、性以及權力，以及我們如何在工作和關係中找回自由的故事。

Katherine O’Dell是愛爾蘭戲院的傳奇，然而當她的女兒Norah追溯她母親的成名之路及放蕩不羈的人生時，她卻發現了被埋藏許久的秘密──不僅是關於她母親，也關於她自己，還有最終是什麼導致了Katherine的瘋狂。

Katherine O’Dell發跡於公路巡迴演出，這趟巡迴之旅將她一路帶往倫敦西區、百老匯，最後到了好萊塢。她生命中的每一刻都是華麗的轉身，且年幼的女兒Norah一直在她身邊看著。然而這段美滿的母女關係卻無法挺過來自Katherine過去以及這個世界的考驗，酒精、衰老和日漸黯淡的星途使得Katherine越來越無法辨認現實，長期積壓的憤怒和無法妥協的自尊使得她最終犯下了恐怖的罪行。

身為母親保護者的Norah，深深明瞭將一個女演員和她的觀眾們連繫在一起的熱烈情感是多麼具有毀滅性，然而卻又同時是激發女演員藝術表現的動力。經過一路的追索和掙扎，Norah最終從一名罪行的受害者，成為了一名作家、妻子以及母親，終於以她自己的方式找到屬於她自己的快樂。這是一個關於如何在工作和關係中找回自由的故事。 (Zoe)

Awards/获奖情况：★愛爾蘭最重要的女性作家之一

★曼布克獎、魯尼愛爾蘭文學獎、安可獎、凱瑞集團愛爾蘭小說獎、愛爾蘭年度小說大獎得獎作者

★此作者作品售出13國版權

★本書尚未出版已售出英、美版權

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE 2020!

ACTRESS by has been sold to Sinbad in Russia and Seix Barral in Spain

A perfect jewel of a book, a dark emerald set in the Irish laureate’s fictional tiara, alongside her Man Booker Prize winner The Gathering (2007) and The Green Road (2015). Its brilliance is complex and multifaceted, but completely lucid… Actress is a deeply humane, often darkly funny novel about the exercise of power over sexually attractive women. The grim subject matter is illuminated by Enright’s acute sensitivity to language… Enright proves, once again, her genius. (Ruth Scurr Spectator)

A warm and generous portrait of a relationship between a daughter and her famous mother… skilfully interwoven with Norah’s own story, and the twists and turns of her own life and marriage. (Hugh Linehan Irish Times)

Hugely readable... this novel should confirm Enright as one of our greatest living novelists.’ The Times

‘A brilliant, devastating, radical novel.’ The Guardian

About the Author/作者介绍： Anne Enright是愛爾蘭最重要的文學作家之一，她是2007曼布克獎得主，是史上第二位獲得曼布克獎的愛爾蘭女作家，她於2018年獲得愛爾蘭筆會的愛爾蘭文學傑出貢獻獎。

Anne Enright於1962年10月11日出生於愛爾蘭都柏林，在都柏林聖三一大學（Trinity College Dublin）取得英文及哲學學位，曾在都柏林RTé電視台擔任製片及導演。安瑞特的創作主題圍繞在家庭關係、愛情和性，以及愛爾蘭的歷史及時代精神。她首次出版短篇小說集The Portable Virgin，即榮獲1991年愛爾蘭文學魯尼獎（Rooney Prize for Irish Literature）。短篇小說《昨天的天氣》（Yesterday’s Weather）在美國出版後，更引爆一股Anne Enright風潮。2007年以小說《聚會》（The Gathering）成為繼Iris Murdoch後第二位榮獲曼布克獎的愛爾蘭女作家，並入圍2008年柑橘獎（Orange Prize）的決選名單。目前是英國皇家文學學會（Royal Society of Literature）成員。

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published two books of stories, collected as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and five novels, including The Gathering, which was the Irish Novel of the Year, and won the Irish Fiction Award and the 2007 Man Booker Prize, and The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. In 2015 she was appointed the first Laureate for Irish Fiction.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold: UK: Jonathan Cape (pub February 2020); US: Norton; Canada: McClelland & Stewart; Germany: Penguin Verlag; Italy: La Nave di Teseo, The Netherlands: De Bezige Bij; Russia: Sinbad, Spain: Seix Barral; Sweden: Brombergs.

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