AMAZING DISGRACE
Book ID/图书代码： 04560006B02436
English Summary/英文概要： Amazing Disgrace is the sequel to the hugely acclaimed Cooking with Fernet Branca - and even funnier. It follows the further adventures of hero Gerald Samper, the man described in the Sunday Times as ‘a wonderfully over-the-top comic creation’ and in the Independent on Sunday as ‘an insufferable snob and a bourgeois buffoon’.
Gerald is a ghostwriter to the illiterate stars, from rock singers and racing drivers to ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose around-the-world voyage has made her the toast of Britain, and who has become the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical environmental group.
Gerald pines for greater things, however, and would prefer to write the memoirs of Max Christ, the celebrated conductor. While he schemes to land this unattainable catch, he muses hilariously and viciously on the world of which he is such an unwilling part, looking out from his Tuscan hilltop and pining for his neighbour Marta, offspring of a crime family from Voynovia, who disappeared one day into thin air.
Meanwhile, some oceanographers are planning revenge on Millie Cleat for her destruction of their greatest coup - and Gerald convinces her that she has seen the face of Neptune in the depths . . .
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《驚人的不雅》是《苦酒入菜》的續集。作者繼續讓勢利眼的英國影子作家Gerald Samper，在寫作中冒險。這一次，他接了兩個代筆案，一個是獨臂航行全世界女孩Millie Cleat的傳記，女孩不知為何被牽扯進神秘環保組織與孩洋學家的陰謀之中，把心不甘情不願的Gerald Samper也拖下水。Gerald Samper其實對寫作另一部知名指揮家的傳記較為興致勃勃，卻被Millie Cleat的事件陷住，讓他十分心煩。這個時候，他那討厭的鄰居、女主角Marta又偏偏失蹤了，Gerald Samper該如何是好呢？(TT)
Awards/获奖情况："Imagine a British John Waters crossed with David Sedaris."---The New York Times Book Review
About the Author/作者介绍： James Hamilton-Paterson’s work has been translated into many languages. He is a highly acclaimed author of non-fiction books, including Seven-Tenths, Three Miles Down and Playing with Water, as well as America’s Boy, a study of Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines. Gerontius, his first novel, won the Whitbread Award, while his most recent, Loving Monsters (2001), was praised by the Sunday Telegraph as ’tantalising, erudite and ingenious’. He lives in Italy.
James Hamilton-Paterson是備受讚譽的英國作家，他畢業於牛津名校，卻主張作家應該持續探索世界，除了到全球各處旅行，他最經常停留的地方，就是澳洲、托斯卡尼與菲律賓。James Hamilton-Paterson的作品有詩集、非小說與小說，長期受邀寫作科學專欄的他，對於海洋研究甚深，屢有相關佳作。卻被文壇視為自我放逐與歸隱的寫作者，難得曝光，低調保持一定的神秘色彩，受到高度推崇。Gerald Samper小說系列，諷喻自省意味濃厚，讀來卻相當輕鬆，猶如一幕幕黑色幽默劇，被評論家認為雅俗共賞，突破文類限制。
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