GODS BEHAVING BADLY

Book ID/图书代码： 03635007B18739

English Summary/英文概要： Being immortal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Life’s hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn’t respect you, and you’re stuck in a delapidated hovel in north London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there’s no way out...Until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives, and turn the world literally upside down. "Gods Behaving Badly" is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original first novel that satisfies the head and the heart.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作為天神並不是想像中的容易，希臘神話奧林帕斯的十二主神在現今的21世紀還活的好好地。但是祂們的力量逐漸消失，而且被困在英國的鄉間小鎮，祂們也必須工作過活。
狩獵女神Artemis的職業是替人遛狗(為凡人Alice工作)、太陽神阿波羅Apollo是電視節目靈媒算命師、愛神阿芙羅黛蒂Aphrodite(羅馬名字維納斯)是色情電話的總機、酒神戴奧尼斯Dionysus是音樂節目的DJ。
漸漸在電視走紅的太陽神阿波羅，卻因愛神阿芙羅黛蒂的忌妒，而命令兒子邱比特以金箭射向阿波羅，使他愛上凡人女子Alice。
原本是一對戀人的Alice和Neil意外捲入眾神的紛爭，世界的秩序已經失衡，而誰能拯救地球?

Awards/获奖情况：15國版權已售出:
UK (Jonathan Cape)
US (Little, Brown)
Canada (Knopf)
Czech (Jota)
France (Editions Heloise d’Ormesson)
Germany (C. Bertelsmann)
Greece (Oceanida)
Holland (De Bezige Bej)
Israel (Modan)
Italy (Guanda)
Japan (Hayakawa Shobo)
Poland (Bertelsmann)
Russia (FLC Bertelsmann)
Scandinavia: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (Bazar)


The Independent
“Marie Phillip’s first novel is a joyful frolic around a simple and funny conceit…delightfully original as well as acutely clever in a makes-you-think-about-contemporary-morality-without-realising it kind of way…this novel will not only make you laugh and give you a nice warm fuzzy feeling; it will also provide a good basic grounding in Greek mythology.”
The Times
“…it is all very, very funny… this book charms and provokes...”
The Scotsman
“In Marie Phillips’ absolutely delightful novel Gods Behaving Badly the Olympians are still around, in much reduced circumstances…Part of the charm is in the juxtapositions – the gods are arrogant yet naieve, foul-mouthed but innocent, powerful but pointless.”
The Observer
“…in the case of Marie Phillips it is deserving of the hype. She has done a spectacular job – funny and unpretentious, witty and readable, Gods Behaving Badly lives up to all its potential.”
The Telegraph Magazine
“What makes the novel stand out – and it really does stand out – is its originality and lightness of touch. ‘What’s clever about it ,’ Dan Franklin says, ‘is that it works on every level – if I were a professor at Christ Church I would enjoy it just as much as if I were Joe Bloggs on the Tube.’ It is also extremely funny… The characters are delightfully vivid.”
The Evening Standard
“Already dubbed the coolest book of the summer, Gods Behaving Badly is the debut novel from cult blogger Marie Phillips…Gods Behaving Badly is that rare thing, a charming, utterly original novel that satisfies the head and the heart.”
The Times Literary Supplement
“engaging and sometimes very funny… Marie Phillips is an amusing match for the ancient satirist (Lucien)”
The Bookseller
“… a funny, lighthearted adventure – but it still manages to make the writer feel clever…"
The Guardian
“Marie Phillip’s debut about Greek gods shamelessly frolicking in north London is ingeniously imagined and satisfyingly lusty.”

About the Author/作者介绍： Marie Phillips was born in London in 1976. She studied anthropology and documentary making, and worked as a TV researcher for several years. More recently she has worked as an independent bookseller whilst writing Gods Behaving Badly.
Marie Phillips 1976年倫敦出生，在劍橋大學專修人類學並服務於英國BBC廣播公司。Gods Behaving Badly是作者獨自經營圖書經銷，以及當時她所創作第一本書。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

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