THE ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY LIBRARY
Book ID/图书代码： 14934119C00003
English Summary/英文概要： Combining fiction and autobiography, the aging writer Richard Kalich describes an unexpected dilemma: he will only be allowed to bring 100 favorite books of the 10,000 or more that crowd his New York City apartment when he moves into an Assisted Living Facility.
Kalich starts to pare down his books with an obsessive urgency that becomes a reexamination of the writing life. And, after taking into his apartment a catatonic homeless woman and her young son in order to write his novel Mother Love, he realizes how wrong he has been. Art is one thing, life is another, and he has only lived "half-a-life." Calling forth his archetypal villain Haberman from an earlier novel, The Nihilesthete, the Author teams up with his Character to explore Kalich’s lifelong inner conflict and the possibility of changing his nature, of transcending the Mind/Body Split.
Richard Kalich is an internationally acclaimed novelist whose other books include The Zoo, Charlie P, and Penthouse F. He has been a Finalist for the National Book Award and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His works have been translated into 14 languages.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 年迈的作家理查德•卡里奇将小说和自传结合起来，描述了一个意想不到的困境:当他搬进养老院时，他只能带100本最喜欢的书，而他在纽约的公寓里住着一万多名读者。
卡利奇开始以一种强迫性的紧迫感削减他的书，这成为对写作生涯的重新审视。为了写小说《母亲的爱》，他带着一个患有紧张症的无家可归的女人和她年幼的儿子进了自己的公寓。艺术是一回事，生活是另一回事，而他只活了“半辈子”。作者在早期的小说《虚无》中塑造了一个典型的反派人物哈伯曼，并和他的角色一起探索卡里奇一生的内心冲突，以及改变他的本性、超越身心分裂的可能性。
理查德•卡里奇是一位享誉国际的小说家，他的其他作品包括《动物园》、《查理》和《阁楼》。他的作品已被翻译成14种语言。（WYL）
Awards/获奖情况：“这是一部最优秀、最人性化的实验小说。在伟大的后现代主义者的控制下，卡里克揭示了书籍是如何形成一种生活的，以及当一个人的生命走到尽头时，书籍和生活本身是如何变得越来越少，变得越来越重要。”—布莱恩•艾文森，小说家和评论家
“一位重要的美国作家。”——卡林•罗曼诺，《费城问询报》
“卡里奇可能是最后一部后现代小说的作者；或者是最后一部小说：句号。”——文学理论家麦克海尔
"This is experimental fiction at its best and most human. With the control of the great postmodernists, Kalich reveals how books form a life, and how, as a life comes to its end, both the books and the life itself become whittled down to what is glowingly essential."
― Brian Evenson, Novelist and Critic
"A major American writer."
― Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Kalich might have written the last postmodern novel; or maybe the last novel: period."
― Brian McHale, Literary Theorist
About the Author/作者介绍： 理查德•卡里奇的作品极具文学性，并以一种只有伍迪•艾伦才能想象到的滑稽方式自嘲。他的其他作品有《动物园》(2001)和《中央公园西三部曲》(2014)，其中包括《虚无》(1987)、《阁楼》(2010)和《查理》(2005)。他曾被提名国家图书奖和普利策奖。他住在纽约市，和他的孪生兄弟、小说家罗伯特•卡里奇一起管理着一家电影公司。
Richard Kalich’s writing is both highly literary and comically self-deprecating in a way that only Woody Allen might have imagined. His other books are The Zoo (2001) and Central Park West Trilogy (2014) ― which includes The Nihilesthete (1987), Penthouse F (2010), and Charlie P (2005). He has been nominated for the National Book Award and for a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City, and manages a film company with his twin brother, the novelist Robert Kalich.
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