WHEN ANGELS REST
Book ID/图书代码: 13010008B21407
English Summary/英文概要: Donald Harington’s tenth Novel continues a fictional saga that draws its creative fuel from the author’s memories of his Ozark Mountain childhood. During World War II, real news is a rare commodity in the hamlet of Stay More, Arkansas. But twelve-year-old Dawny -inspired by his hero Ernie Pyle- finds enough local color to keep the townsfolk reading his weekly newspaper, The Stay Morning Star. Dawny reports on the war between the Allies and the Axis, two roving bands of boys and girls fighting with sticks and spears, and competing in scarp drives and verbal jousts. But the tenor of these games changes as developments bring the world’s war closer to home: the crackle of the town’s first radio delivers frightening news from the outside world to the isolated village, and a native son dies on Iwo Jima. For the first time ever, an airplane darkens the skies over Stay More, and soldiers occupy the remote hills in training for an invasion of Japan. As the ways of outsiders creep into the small town’s routines, the texture of rural life is irrevocably changed.
Donald Harington’s bittersweet tale reflects on the hilarity and calamity of childhood, the isolation that remains in intimacy, and the impending shadows of maturity that darken human nature. By turns comic, sad, and violent, When Angles Rest is a masterful work, part American tall take, part hillbilly Paradiso.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 第一次看到这个作家的作品,很为感动,作者的写作手法高明,可与乔叟一比。更令人敬佩的是,作者是位双耳失聪的人,能把书中各种声音,人物心理等写得如此传神,实在难得。 此书是DONALD HARINGTON的第十本精彩小说,讲诉了世界二战时期,村里大部分成年男子都去参军了,留下的只有妇女老人和孩子,主人公是一个十二岁的男孩叫“Dawny",住在一个偏僻而落后的村庄叫“Stay More”。男孩在村里惟一的学校读书,里面有十来个孩子,他们被分成两派,“联盟军”和“轴心国 ”。小说的前半部分是以孩子们之间的打闹为中枢,描写了男孩在自己的兴趣推动下自己制作起了一份村里惟一的报纸---The Stay Morning Sta报,从而凸显出男孩对生活的热情,对新事物,对异性的好奇。后来孩子间的矛盾升华,大人的介入,才结束了他们间的分派打闹。小说后半部分里,军队演习改变了原本村庄的生活,此后,种种事件,启发男孩对生活,对战争,对爱情有了新的认识。
本书是一本很富有想像力的小说。写法特别,可以看出作者是个讲故事的高手。(WZ)
Awards/获奖情况:DONALD HARINGTON是美国当代著名作家--被誉为“美国的乔叟”
“一个未被发现的大陆”级别的重要作家 –畅销书作家Fred Chappel评价
“美国最伟大的隐匿作家。”来自娱乐周刊Entertainment Weekly"
他2003年获得了the Robert Penn Warren Award 奖,
1987年获得了the Porter Prize 奖,
1998年在Lyon College学院获得了the Heasley Prize奖,并于1999年被加入Arkansas作家荣誉席位,同年获得了the Arkansas Fiction Award奖。
2006年获得Oxford America’s lifetime Achievement Award奖。
目前大苹果代理作者的所有图书(12本)
目前可供审读的样书:有如下四本
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About the Author/作者介绍: A tenured art history professor at the University of Arkansas, Donald Harington lives in Fayetteville with his wife, Kim. The Stay More novels, among them Butterfly Weed, Ekaterina, The Choiring of the Trees, and The Cockroaches of Stay More, have attracted a devoted following of readers, some of whom have become so enchanted as to strike out in search of Harington’s fictional village.
自从1965年作者的第一本小说在Random House出版后,到目前为止已经出版了12本小说。小说的大部分都发生在他自己设想出来的一个小镇Stay More 他2003年获得了the Robert Penn Warren Award 奖, 1987年获得了the Porter Prize 奖, 1998年在Lyon College学院获得了the Heasley Prize奖, 并于1999年被加入Arkansas作家荣誉席位,同年获得了the Arkansas Fiction Award奖。
他被誉为“一个未被发现的大陆”级别的重要作家。an undiscovered continent" (Fred Chappell这个作者的评论)来自Fred Chappell的重要评论。
他被誉为“美国最伟大的隐匿作家。”来自娱乐周刊Entertainment Weekly"America’s Greatest Unknown Novelis。作者本人是阿肯色大学的终身教授,虽然他出生在小石城,但年少时光大多数时光是在密苏里的一个村庄长大的,那里是他母亲的故乡,他外婆在当地开了个杂货铺和小邮局。在他十二岁前,也就是耳朵没有失聪前所听到的多数是那里的声音,老故事等等。他获得了艺术和艺术史的学位后,就在他的母校University of Arkansas等大学任教。目前他和妻子Kim 居住在Fayetteville。
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