THE BEACON
Book ID/图书代码: 12100008B30223
English Summary/英文概要: May, Colin, Frank and Berenice – the four children of John and Bertha Prime, were brought up in the farm called The Beacon, a bleak, windswept place but one in which they spent a happy, close-knit childhood. Or did they ? They all remembered it that way, apart from Frank, who went to London, became a journalist and then wrote a dreadful ‘misery memoir’, The Cupboard under the Stairs, in which he told the ‘truth’ about his abused childhood. But what was the truth ? When the book is published and then made into a film, when all their names and those of their neighbours are there for all to see, the Primes endure shame, bewilderment and above all anger at what Frank has done. But Colin and Berenice have married and only May is left at The Beacon to try and get on with some sort of life, looking after their dying mother, remembering, trying to puzzle out what Frank did and why.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 這是一片荒蕪的農場,普萊姆一家的四個孩子:梅、科林、弗蘭克、和貝雷妮絲在這裏度過了他們的童年。
在他們的記憶中,童年時代充滿了歡樂與美好,而弗蘭克卻是個例外。弗蘭克長大後前往倫敦,成為了一名記者,隨後他寫下了一部講述他痛苦童年的回憶錄《樓梯下的櫥櫃》,在這本書中,弗蘭克向人們描述了他兒時飽受虐待的“真相”。然而真相究竟是什麼?
隨著這本書出版,普萊姆一家忍受著恥辱與憤怒,沒有人知道弗蘭克究竟為何要這樣做。此時,科林與貝蕾妮絲已經成家,只有梅孤身返回了煙火農場,她要照顧垂死的母親,同時,找出事情的真相……(RH)
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About the Author/作者介绍: 蘇珊•希爾(1942—),英國當代影響廣泛的女小說家、廣播劇作家。1942年出生於約克郡斯卡巴勒,1963年畢業于倫敦大學皇家學院英國文學系,獲特優生稱號。此後5年任《考文垂電訊晚報》書評專欄作家。
自1939年起,成為專業作家、記者、廣播員,並一度專為英國廣播公司撰寫電視劇本。1975年與莎士比亞專家斯坦利•威爾斯結婚,此後便停止創作,但仍然是位傑出的批評家、廣播員和書評家。
她10多年間所創作的小說,一直盛銷不衰。希爾的作品講究傳統結構、藝術上精益求精,而且具有鮮明的主題,——探索現代人的孤獨感、失敗感和隔離感。她以其女性特有的敏感,於細微處見出人物獨特的心理狀態,往往寥寥數筆,盡得主人公(多為老人、小孩)內心的隱秘和感情的微妙。
蘇珊16歲時便寫出頗為成功的處女作《圍牆》;在倫敦大學讀本科時,又創作出《幫個忙》,此後作品趨向成熟,陸續發表了長篇小說《紳士淑女》,《我是城堡之王》(1971年薩默塞特•毛姆獎)、《夜鳥》(1972年惠特比獎)等優秀作品,同時,她也是雀巢聰明豆兒童圖書金獎得主。
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