CHARLIE P
Book ID/图书代码： 12802006B06981
English Summary/英文概要： A lonely tune figure of the American manchild goes through adventures of an epic dimension. Author Richard Kalich offers a singularly unique, comic and outlandish Everyman - the kind of eternally adolescent man one sees on any American street corner - who, in his epic adventures through life, loses his penis, is completely dismembered, suffocated, starved-and-cut in half, yet continues to come back for more. At age three, when his father dies, he decides to overcome mortality by becoming immortal. By not living his life, he will live forever. Whether he’s perusing the girl of his dreams, or a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, Charlie P ends up with no more than a peck on the cheek or robbed blind. Even when dead and called to Heaven for an accounting, he remains the eternal optimist. Now that he’s dead and gone, he finally has a real chance at achieving his ends. He can start over. Having never lived his life, his life has hardly begun yet. Akin to other great American icons, such as Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt, Ring Lardner’s Al and Forrest Gump, Charlie P plumbs the relation between fantasy and reality to offer readers a character both asocial and, at the same time, at the heart of the American Dream.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “《Charlie P》是一部充滿活力的，輕鬆幽默的，一點都不沉悶的，值得一讀的黑色幽默小說”——Sven Birkerts
在這部《Charlie P》小說中，紐約作家理查•卡林奇為我們提供了一個獨特的、有趣的、和古怪的普通人。類似於美國其他偉大的的風雲人物，如辛克萊•路易斯筆下的巴比特式人物(美國小說家辛克萊劉易士所著同名小說的主人公，自滿、守舊、庸俗的中產階級實業家或自由職業者)和林•拉德納筆下的人物主人公Al（阿爾），《Charlie P》探索幻想與現實之間的關係，以提供給我們一個自私和孤僻的，並同時身處繁華美國都市的故事主人公。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：From Publishers Weekly
In this zany, episodic picaresque, anxiety and erections rule the life of the title Charlie, a priapic, Woody Allen–style flaneur, "Peckerhead and Prophet. Pariah and Prodigal Son... all things to all people and nothing to himself." As Charlie tells his shrink, it was a domineering mother who turned him into an amiable, sex-mad slacker: she wanted him to be a novelist. Instead, Charlie interviews possible agents and publishers without writing a word—or indeed reading a single book, despite the fact that he has compiled a massive library. At every turn through Charlie’s mild misadventures, Kalich tries to go over the top: in one episode, Charlie misplaces his penis and envisions the happy life to come without the trouble of a sex life. In another episode he falls victim to a bizarre series of accidents, losing all five senses and suffering manifold indignities in a Kafkaesque hospital, right up to having his ass removed and sewn on to the body of another. It’s hard to see where Kalich is going with so much coy buffoonery, but he hints that Charlie’s behavior is all too typical of an ongoing cultural crisis of masculinity.
“With his continuous comic exaggeration, Kalich is able to describe, highly uniquely, the overwhelming, vertiginous, risky sensation of being alive.” — American Book Review
About the Author/作者介绍： 理查•卡林奇出生在紐約。他備受讚譽的小說《The Nihilesthete》出版發行於英國，德國，以色列，丹麥和荷蘭。這部小說在1987年的《費城詢問報》被評論家卡琳•羅馬諾稱為“最具價值的二十四部小說之一”,並被選中代表美國參選法蘭克福圖書博覽會。《The Nihilesthete》被提名為Pen（作家）/ Faulkner Award（福克納獎）, Hemingway Award（海明威獎），National Book Award（美國國家圖書獎）和Pulitzer Prize（普利策獎）。卡林奇和他的孿生兄弟羅伯特共同在紐約開辦電影製作公司。Richard Kalich was born, raised, educated, and resides in New York City. The Nihilesthete is his first novel. A second has just been completed.
Format:MASS MARKET TRADE PAPERBACK
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RUSSIA, BULGARIA
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