THE GREAT LOVER
Book ID/图书代码： 06400008B20349
English Summary/英文概要： A captivating novel about the poet Rupert Brooke, showing the complex man behind the romantic image as it tells a poignant story of love and loss
Nell Golightly is living out her widowhood in Cambridgeshire when she receives a strange request: a Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, writes to ask what he was like? So Nell turns her mind to 1909 when, as a seventeen-year-old housemaid, she first encountered the young poet. He was already causing a stir - not only with his poems and famed good looks, but also by his taboobreaking behaviour and radical politics. Intrigued, she watched as Rupert skilfully managed his male and female admirers, all of whom seemed to be in love with him. Soon Nell realised that despite her good sense, she was falling for him too. But could he love a housemaid? Was he, in fact, capable of love at all? Jill Dawson gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a dual narrative that unfolds in both
his own words and those of her spirited fictional character, Nell. A memorable tale of love in many guises, of heartbreak and loss, the novel brings Brooke vividly to life as it shows him to have been a far more interesting, complex and troubled figure than the romanticised version allows.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 英國戰爭詩人布鲁克 (Rupert Brooke)的愛情故事
布鲁克在一次世界大戰時所寫的「戰爭十四行詩」廣受矚目，特別是The Soldier；他也因為長相英俊可愛而廣受歡迎。
愛爾蘭詩人葉慈(William Butler Yeats)就曾譽Rupert Chawner Brooke為「英國最帥的男人」。
Jill Dawson寫了這本迷人的小說，關於潛藏於詩人布鲁克(Rupert Brooke)羅曼蒂克的形象背後的複雜的一面，道出一個愛與迷失的故事。
Nell Golightly住在劍橋郡，獨自過者寡居的生活，不久後，她收到了一個來自大溪地女人的請求，表示他希望成為詩人Rupert Brooke的女兒。於是Nell 將她的心轉向 1909 年，當時他還是個17歲的小女僕，懈逅了一名年輕的詩人。
這個詩人在當時已經引起一陣轟動—不僅僅是他的詩和帥氣的外表，更因他的放浪不羈和對政治的激進。出自於一種好奇心理， Nell看著布鲁克熟練地 操弄他的男性和女性崇拜者，所有人看來都像是發瘋似地愛著他…很快地，Nell 明瞭到自己內心的感受，原來她和眾人沒什麼兩樣！她也深深愛上了他。 但是，布鲁克有可能愛上一個平凡的女僕嗎？ 並且，他還有能力去愛嗎？
Jill Dawson為 Rupert Brooke 作者透過雙重敘事技巧，為詩人Rupert Brooke發聲， Nell只是但精神虛構人物。
這是一個值得回憶的故事，透過偽裝的愛情，心碎與迷失，這本小說彷彿讓詩人布鲁克的故事活了起來，讓這故事變的更有趣、更動容且更令人費解，比以往的愛情故事更令人動容。(SL)
Awards/获奖情况：●《詩的戀人》為英國最具影響力的「理察與茱蒂」讀書俱樂部（The Richard & Judy Book Club）推薦選書
●作者得過惠特布萊德小說獎，出版過6本短篇小說集詩集
●作者作品WILD BOY, WATCH ME DISAPPEAR 獲選柑橘獎初選名單
US rights: Hodder/Available
Translation rights: Hodder/Available
’This is an exceptional book even from the prize-winning Dawson – clever, moving, sexy and with a mesmerising feel for that magical, optimistic, but doomed time just before the Great War’---Daily Mail
’Nell and Brooke ponder the appearance of things, in search of hidden realities. Both are sensuous, passionate, sharp-witted and prone to introspection . . . the story that emerges is strong, satisfying and memorable’---Helen Dunmore, The Times
’Nell is a wonderful creation: resilient, intelligent and heart-breakingly innocent . . . [Dawson]manages not only an impressive evocation of Brooke’s milieu but a compelling reassessment of a poet often dismissed by modern readers . . . most of all, her novel digs Brooke out of that corner of a foreign field that is forever cliché’---Time Out
’Not only engaging and seductive, it is also clever, witty and artfully designed’---Times Literary Supplement
’Jill Dawson has created a convincing world of huge pathos; a subtle, evocative anti-fairy-tale of doomed youth by one of Britain’s most subtle and accomplished writers’---Liz Jensen, Waterstone’s Books Quarterly
’The Great Lover has many wonderful scenes . . . But it is remarkable principally for its Rupert Brooke, glorious in all his agony and shame, particularly as he sees his sanity slipping away from him . . . this novel shows a rare mastery of materials. Dawson has worked the imaginary character of Nell so seamlessly into the narrative of Brooke’s life that Nell seems to belong there. It is difficult to see where the many direct quotations from letters and memoris end and Dawson’s imagination begins.’---Daily Telegraph
About the Author/作者介绍： Jill Dawson在約克郡長大，作品TRICK OF THE LIGHT, MAGPIE, FRED AND EDIE,得過惠特布萊德小說獎，作品WILD BOY, WATCH ME DISAPPEAR得過柑橘獎。
此外，Jill Dawson出版過6本短篇小說、詩集選集。
Jill Dawson出生於達拉謨(英格蘭東北部城市)，在約克郡(英格蘭東北的一郡)長大。她領過許多獎學金，其中包括東英吉利大學的創作獎學金。
2006年，她獲得了名譽博士學位，以表彰她的工作。
她和她的丈夫和兩個兒子住在沼澤地。
Format:HARDCOVER
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