TRAUMA
Book ID/图书代码： 11701207B18487
English Summary/英文概要： Charlie Weir is a man who tackles other people’s demons for a living. He has seen every kind of trauma during his years as a psychiatrist in New York City, and yet hasn’t found a way to resolve the conflicts within his own family - his bitter rivalry with his brother Walt, a successful painter, his estrangement from his shiftless father and his stifling relationship with his dying mother. And he has never overcome the terrible blunder, seven years before, that lost him his wife and daughter, leaving him prone to corrosive loneliness and restless anger.
When Walt introduces Charlie to Nora Chiara, he is drawn as much to her air of suffering as he is to her striking beauty. They fall for each other quickly, hungrily, but their bliss is short-lived. Her vulnerability, once so irresistible, begins to sour their life together, and Charlie realises that she is now patient first, lover second. And as he probes at the source of her distress, a half-memory from deep in his own unconscious mind begins to arouse a horrifying suspicion.
Dark, compelling and beautifully crafted, Trauma is a story about how damaged people seek each other out - and how pain, though buried, can be resurrected in unexpected ways.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 克理斯是個專門幫人驅魔的人。曾在紐約當過精神科醫生的他，看過許多人在生活上的創傷，不過卻無法解決自己的家庭問題，他與他知名的畫家兄弟Walt之間的紛爭，也因母親的瀕死及失志父親的關係下漸漸疏遠。其實他的妻子及女兒也因自己孤僻及暴躁的性格離開他。認識了Nora後雖然有過重新開始及幸福的感覺，但似乎這段感情並不如他想像的簡單……
Awards/获奖情况：版權已售：UK: Bloomsbury; US: Knopf; Holland: De Bezige Bij; Italy: Bompiani; Spain: Random House Mondadori
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About the Author/作者介绍： 派屈克．麥克葛瑞茲的知名作品有短篇小說集《血、水和其他傳說》（Blood and Water and Other Tales），小說《鬼城紐約》(Ghost Town)、《庇護》(Asylum)、《海德格醫生的病》(Dr. Haggard’s Disease)、《蜘蛛夢魘》(Spider)等。其中《瑪莎．皮克：革命的故事》(Martha Peake：A Novel of the Revolution)入圍英國《衛報》小說獎(Guardian Fiction Prize)r決選名單及義大利弗拉亞諾文學獎(Premio Internazionale Flaiano di Letteratura)，最近一部小說作品《蒙戈碼頭》(Port Mungo)於2004年出版。目前住在紐約及倫敦。
Patrick McGrath was born in London in 1950. He has lived in various parts of North America and spent several years on a remote island in the north Pacific, before moving to New York City in 1981. He is the author of a story collection, Blood and Water and Other Tales, and six novels: The Grotesque; Spider, which was adapted for the big screen in 2002, with a screenplay by Patrick McGrath; Dr Haggard’s Disease; Asylum, which was shortlisted for the 1996 Guardian Fiction Prize and is currently being made into a feature film; Martha Peake; and, published by Bloomsbury in May 2004, Port Mungo. Patrick McGrath lives in London and New York with his wife Maria Aitken.
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