GIRL TROUBLE
Book ID/图书代码： 02330009B30615
English Summary/英文概要： A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant—with his child. The nightmare of a college student’s rape and murder is relived by both her mother and her killer, whose contradictory accounts call to question the very nature of victimhood.
In these eight stories, the fine line between right and wrong, good and bad, love and violence is walked over and over again.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一名高中的籃球教練發現自己的明星球員懷孕了，而肚裡的小孩是他的…
在田納西的小鎮裡，一位父親必須面臨十九歲的兒子被指控強暴當地某位女孩的罪行…
一位孤單的婦女回想起自己失敗的婚姻及年輕時所受暴力攻擊，使她走上自我毀滅的地步…
一個大學生遭受強暴及謀殺的惡夢竟真實發生在自己母親身上，身為被害者的家屬將如何面對所謂「受害者情節」所帶來的影響…
作者透過這八篇故事讓我再次認清何謂善惡的分界，及周遭女性所面臨生活恐懼及不安。(VL)
Awards/获奖情况：美國新生代女作家！
《然後，我們就Bye了》、《不存在的女兒》等書作者齊聲推薦！
This masterful debut dramatizes the fortitude of small-town southerners confronting situations gone terribly wrong and the shadowed boundaries of love, morality, and violence. In “Retrospective,” the return of Libby’s ex-husband forces her to reflect on the failure of their marriage along with a traumatic act of abuse from years earlier. In “Life Expectancy,” a high-school basketball coach feels increasingly saddled by his distracted wife and infant daughter. He also hides a shocking secret involving one of the girls on his team and is soon forced to deal with the fallout from his choices. The heartbreaking “Parts” follows Dana as she struggles with intense sorrow over the loss of her college-age daughter, Felicia; the effect of Felicia’s death on her marriage; and the harrowing circumstances surrounding Felicia’s murder. Perspectives are shifted, however, in the final story, about one of the young men involved in Felicia’s killing and the moral courage he cannot, or will not, pursue. Jones’ seemingly effortless style makes the eight tales quietly powerful and achingly human.— Leah Strauss
Rights sold:
France to Albin Michel; Italy to Fazi Editore
Interviews with author:http://www.ugapress.org/FOC_Jones.html
“A grand debut of a writer who is assured, sensitive, and wonderfully skillful. There is a poignancy to Holly Goddard Jones’s work, a poignant sense that but for one small misstep a character’s world might have spun differently. Most of us know it well, but few writers are able to put it on the page. And perhaps that is why Jones’s people in the small world of Roma, Kentucky, are hauntingly familiar—she reveals the ‘us’ in her Romans. A marvelous work of heartbreaking wisdom.” -- Edward P. Jones, author of THE KNOWN WORLD（愛德華．瓊斯，普立玆獎得主，著有《盡人皆知的世界》）
“Holly Goddard Jones is blessed with wisdom beyond her years, a gimlet eye and an enviable literary talent; her debut collection GIRL TROUBLE is a fierce and exhilarating achievement.” --- Claire Messud（克萊爾．梅素，著有《王者之子》（The Emperor’s Children））
"No politician should ever again use the phrase ’The American People’ without reading this book, preferably twice, so that they understand at last just who the hell they’re talking about. Holly Goddard Jones has a voice as expansive, complex, and beautiful as the country itself." ---Joshua Ferris（約書亞．費瑞斯，入選美國書卷奬，著有《然後，我們就Bye了》）
"GIRL TROUBLE is a powerful, resonant short story collection from the uniquely talented Holly Goddard Jones." ---George Pelecanos（喬治‧沛倫卡諾斯，紐約時報暢銷作家）
"Holly Goddard Jones is a strikingly gifted young writer . . . Compelling and full of heartache, these stories are so beautifully written you won’t want them to end. --- Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter（金．愛德華茲，著有《不存在的女兒》）
"The world of Holly Goddard Jones’ fiction is gorgeous, sometimes violent, sometimes heartbreaking, and utterly gripping. These wide and varied stories examine a great portion of American culture through an imagination that seems capable of understanding, frankly, anything. No one who reads them will soon forget them." --- Erin McGraw, author of The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard
About the Author/作者介绍： Holly Goddard Jones’s stories have appeared in New Stories from the South, Best American Mystery Stories, and various literary journals. She is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. http://www.hollygoddardjones.com/
Holly Goddard Jones曾榮獲羅娜‧傑菲基金會Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award所頒發的新銳作家奬，之前發表的作品曾收錄於《全美最懸疑故事集》Best American Mystery Stories當中。目前則擔任北卡羅來納州立大學的助理教授。
Format:电子手稿
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