EEEEE EEE EEEE: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 08885007B12421

English Summary/英文概要： Tao Lin’s book blog, ReaderofDepressingBooks.com, has made him one of the most talked-about young writers on the scene today. His commentaries taking mainstream writers to task and calling for the death of commercial writing have generated nonstop discussion and made him the subject of innumerable profiles on leading cultural websites, from McSweeney’s to Bookslut to Gawker and on. Meanwhile, his fiction appears regularly in the ’zines and websites defining the new culture. All this while still an undergraduate at New York University — where Lin won the school’s prestigious writing award.

Less than a year after graduating, Lin meets and surpasses all expectations in a debut novel set in the bizarre alternative reality of today’s youth culture. EEEEE EEE EEEEis a pleasingly sophisticated work, an unself-conscious yet commanding tour de force about the search for meaning in a culture gone mad with celebrities and advertising.

Depicting a group of friends transitioning between school and adulthood, Lin’s prose is strikingly stylish, funny, and lyrical, as he reminds us that youth is still-refreshingly-a time of deep questioning, poignant realization, fun, and hope. It is a place where animals talk, books and music matter, honesty counts, and you can ask, without fear of embarrassment, "What’s a Jhumpa Lahiri?"

It is a sparkling, joyous debut.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 海豚使用声波交流。它们发出EEEEE EEE EEEE的声音，以此来表达自己的感情。
这是诗人Lin的第一篇小说，故事讲述了男孩安德鲁的生活。安德鲁刚从大学毕业，现在是一名披萨外卖送货员，他不厌其烦地思考着过去和将来，回想着自己的大学生活和前女友，偶尔向好友史蒂夫倾诉他的无聊。安德鲁说，有时想要歇斯底里地破坏那些资本主义企业。
少年安德鲁困于一个极度乏味无聊的世界中，与他做伴的是海豚、麋鹿、熊……他以倾诉打发时间，而这些动物杀死人类。
看起来荒诞、毫无意义，却让你欲罢不能。从一个名人和广告泛滥的文化中寻找生命的意义。以当今愈发古怪的青年文化为背景，Lin在这本奇妙的小说中将他的才华展现得淋漓尽致。(RH)

Awards/获奖情况：RIGHTS SOLD:

Spain,
Germany ,DuMont Verlag
Japan, Kawade Shobo.
在美国已经第三次重印！
From Publishers Weekly
Poet and blogger Lin’s debut novel uneasily documents the life of Andrew, a recent college graduate working at Domino’s Pizza while over-analyzing every aspect of his life: past, present and futureless. He drives through the suburbs reminiscing about college life in New York and his ex-girlfriend, stopping occasionally to express his boredom to his best friend Steve. When at one point, Andrew states that he wants to "wreak complex and profound havoc" upon capitalist establishments such as McDonald’s, it feels like Lin is attempting the same kind of attack on organized art. The novel, while short on plot, makes abrupt shifts in setting and point of view, and is pierced throughout by celebrity cameos and surreal touches: bears, dolphins (who say "Eeeee Eee Eeee" to express emotion, in spite of their ability to speak like humans), Salman Rushdie, and the president make grandiose declarations that are heavily saturated with the same sardonic wit displayed by Andrew and his friends. The novel dips dangerously into metafiction, with Andrew in the middle of "writing a book of stories about people who are doomed." The characters’ repetitive thoughts and conversations become strangely hypnotic, however, and Lin’s sympathetic fascination with the meaning of life is full of profound and often hilarious insights.

"Tao Lin will kick your ass and say thank you afterwards!"
-Amy Fusselman, author of The Pharmacist’s Mate

About the Author/作者介绍： Tao Lin was last year’s winner of NYU’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize. He is the poetry editor for 3 a.m. magazine, and proprietor of the book blog ReaderofDepressingBooks.com. His stories and poems have appeared in Mississippi Review, Cincinnati Review, Other Voices, Punk Planet, and many other magazines. Tao was born in 1983.
Tao Lin，1983年出生，美国诗人、短篇小说家。著有短片小说集《Bed》以及两部诗集。Lin的作品被翻译成多种文字，并已在日本、德国、西班牙出版。《EEEEE EEE EEEE》将于今年3月拍成电影。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

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