THE MOTEL LIFE: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 00200005B11670
English Summary/英文概要： Opening like an early "Tom Waits" barstool-tale, "The Motel Life" tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. Taking to the road in an attempt to escape the hit and run accident caused by Jerry Lee, the novel goes back to tell the story of their unhappy lives. With intense feeling and compassion, Vlautin explores the frustrations and failed dreams of the two brothers - one a natural storyteller, the other an artist - and perfectly renders the sense of entrapment they feel. Will the kid’s death shock them out of their torpor or send them ever deeper into trouble? Can Annie James, a girl from their past, offer them any sort of redemption, however slim? Interspersed with drawings that come to form an integral part of the narrative, "The Motel Life" is a poetic, moving, beautifully naive and tragic fictional debut. Alongside such seminal works as Annie Proulx’s "Postcards", Raymond Carver’s "What we talk about when we talk about love and Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son", it should come to be seen as a classic of downbeat American prose. Beautifully written, "The Motel Life" is a future classic of American prose. Vlautin’s writing will be loved by fans of Raymond Carver and Annie P
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 家庭的不幸，命运的摆弄，现实的压迫，内心的挣扎….看似失去了希望的生活，将如何度过？是放弃，还是反抗？"那天早上，當我看到車後面孩子們凍僵的手臂，厄運降臨到我和哥哥的頭上時，我就知道我們將要做些什麼。我們沒有退縮，而是將厄運狠狠地踩在腳下，做出了最令人難以想像到的事情—我們跑了。”
The Motel Life 美国悲情散文的经典之作,电影版即将呈现.
本書以其歌颂親情的主題打動了無數讀者，廣受好評，在亞馬遜圖書網的推薦指數為五顆星。本書即將改編為電影，非常值得期待。
The Motel Life 是沃丁的第一本出版小說，在工藝上就已相當出色。該書講述了一對兄弟Frank 和 Jerry Lee Flannigan 為了逃離厄運而四處流亡的故事。小說中Jerry Lee Flannigan 因受一件肇事逃離案件的牽連，為了避免懲罰而不得不與兄弟遠離他鄉。在描寫這對兄弟的生活時，沃丁避免使用複合句和明喻，以更好地表現出他們生活的艱辛。少年時代，他們的母親就撒手人寰。而他們的父親既是個慣偷又是個賭鬼，幾年前也棄他們而去。他們住在條件惡劣的汽車旅館裏，整日酗酒，做著永無出頭之日的工作。Jerry Lee 自認為自己雖然是個一無是處的人，但還是有良心的。由於時常悲痛過度，因而自殺未遂。Frank一直陪伴在他的身邊，編纂出許多童真的故事以鼓勵他繼續堅持下去。(兼职翻译-徐曼曼)
Awards/获奖情况：’The finest American novel I’ve read in some time, so simple, so spare and so honest.’---David Peace, author of GB84 ’Redemption comes through story-telling, and this is a tale told in a beautiful tone of deadpan wonder.’---Niall Griffiths, author of Grits and Wreckage
About the Author/作者介绍： Willy Vlautin is the singer and main songwriter of the highly acclaimed Americana band Richmond Fontaine, whose albums include, POST TO WIRE (2004) and, most recently, THE FITZGERALD (2005)
Excerpted from Motel Life by W Vlautin. Copyright © 2007. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
‘I knew then, that morning, when I saw the kid’s frozen arms in the back of the car that bad luck had found my brother and me. And us, we took the bad luck and strapped it around our feet like concrete. We did the worst imaginable thing you could do. We ran away.’
威力.沃丁曾是美國著名的音樂組合Richmond Fontaine的成員之一，擔任主唱，並為多張專輯創作出了許多頗受好評的词作，例如POST TO WIRE (2004) 和 THE FITZGERALD (2005)。除了音樂，沃丁亦是非常熱愛文學創作，他的第一部作品就已達到極高的造詣。值得關注的是THE FITZGERALD (2005)的歌詞選自其小說作品The Motel Life, 發行後幾經再版。這也證明了沃丁的小說非常具有樂感和節奏感，十分引人入勝。此外，沃丁的另外一本關於青少年的書籍-- LEAN ON PETE同樣值得品讀.
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