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Book ID/图书代码: 03540010B38089
English Summary/英文概要: Jesse is on a school trip in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion. When he and three friends crawl out of the wreckage they discover a city in chaos. Streets are deserted. Buildings are in ruins. And the only other survivors seem are infected with a virus that turns them into horrifying predators...
You can watch a trailer for the book here:
http://www.a-lone.com.au/
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 當世界一夜驟變,只剩下你和好友,與一群染上病毒的駭人怪物... 故事video 介紹:http://www.a-lone.com.au/
譯作來源:http://blog.udn.com/shannalee/2916723
ALONE 獨自 愛倫坡作
From childhood’s hour I have not been 孩提時 我即與眾不同
As others were---I have not seen 他人所見 我看不到
As others saw---I could not bring 我無法將熱情
My passions from a common spring. 從尋常的春天挪走
>From the same source I have not taken 也不能把哀傷
My sorrow; I could not awaken 從同一個來源取去
My heart to joy at the same tone; 難以喚醒心靈 以哀
傷頻道承受喜悅
And all I lov’d, I loved alone. 每件深愛的事,只願獨自領會
當地鐵車廂因爆炸翻覆時,傑西正在紐約參加校外活動。
當他和其他三位朋友〈大衛、安娜和米妮〉幸運爬出車廂外,卻發現紐約市已陷入一場混亂之中:街道一片狼籍,大樓只剩下殘餘瓦片。
最糟的是,浩劫過後的生還者似乎都染上了一種病毒,而這種病毒則將他們全都變成為駭人的怪物…
故事中四位主角背景
Page 1 Jesse傑西
“我想家,想念澳洲那特有的熱氣、悠哉的人們與那裏的平靜。在這裡,天氣比我想像的還要冷,而且每個人看起來都在趕時間。
以前在家,我知道我的朋友會在後院烤肉,在街上玩板球,說笑、嬉鬧,設法打贏對方。
也許有一天我會習慣這個地方,誰知道呢?我所知道的曼哈頓市,是一個讓我不曾感到自在的巨大城市。好像整個美國都擠在這裡,像是一隻自己吞食自己的蛇般,被緩慢地吞嚥入肚。
這種會吃自己尾巴的蛇好像是叫做沃洛波羅斯吧?如果要我跟人介紹紐約這個地方,我會這麼介紹:紐約市,裡頭住著數百萬人,有數不清的街道、川流不息的人群在吞食著這個城市。這個城市太過繁忙、太過孤單,超出我所能負荷。”(Kate Cheng)
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About the Author/作者介绍: James Phelan出生於1979年澳大利亞墨爾本,他從小就有一種創新意識和想像力。喜歡閱讀Roald Dahl,Paul Jennings的作品。還喜歡閱讀《The Hobbit》、《金銀島》、《The Jungle Book》《Tales of the Punjab》、《Siddhartha》、《小王子》。少年時,他喜歡地域政治驚悚小說。受到各種名家的影響,包括Alistair MacLean, Clive Cussler, Jeffery Archer, Ken Follett, Tom Clancy, Jack Higgins, Robert Ludlum, John le Carre, Ian Fleming, and Jeffery Deaver。15歲時,他就開始寫第一本小說,有關2000年悉尼奧運會的恐怖襲擊事件。隨後,因Tom Clancy的《Rainbow Six》出版而放棄這個故事,但書中人物的形象卻記在他心中,成為後來作品的主角。
在撰寫” The Lachlan Fox thriller series”過程中,他採訪了澳大利亞防禦隊的退役軍人,以及經歷過這些政治事件的記者和NGO工作人員。
James在大學中學習建築學和英國文學,並拿到創意寫作博士學位。畢業後,在”Age Newspaper” 報社工作,期間他萌生了描寫第一本出版作品的靈感。目前,他出版了政治驚悚系列小說The Lachlan Fox thriller series和青少年災難小說The Alone trilogy.
James Phelan was born on the 21st of May, 1979, in Melbourne, Australia. His creative spirit was nurtured from a young age, and he credits his overactive imagination to being exposed to such works as The Hobbit, Treasure Island, The Jungle Book, and The Little Prince.
As a teenager James discovered a love of thrillers, of being entertained and informed on topical global events. James cites influences on the Fox series from reading such authors as Alistair MacLean, Clive Cussler, Jeffery Archer, Ken Follett, Tom Clancy, Jack Higgins, Robert Ludlum, John le Carre, and Jeffery Deaver.
In 1995, aged fifteen, James started his first novel for his VCE English assignment. A thriller involving a terrorist attack on the 2000 Sydney Olympics, James eventually abandoned the storyline when Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six was published in 1998. While this storyline died, the lead protagonists of Lachlan Fox and Alister Gammaldi did not, and James went in search of another introductory tale.
After high school James went on to study in Architecture, and then English Literature, eventually graduating with a Master of Arts in Writing. It was during his masters degree and while working at The Age newspaper James developed the idea that would become his first published book, and would lead to seeing his novels in print.
James Phelan出生於墨爾本,從小極具創作天賦,並對驚悚小說產生了濃厚的興趣。1995年,十五歲的James開始著手創作他的第一部驚悚小說,虛構了2000年悉尼奧運會遭到恐怖襲擊的故事,然而美國暢銷小說作家Tom Clancy在1998年出版了Rainbow Six(彩虹六號),書中內容與James的設想多處相似,於是他放棄了這個構想,另起思路。
James在大學裏開始進修建築學及英國文學,並獲得藝術寫作碩士學位。大學畢業後,他曾在The Age newspaper工作,James的第一部出版作品也在此期間成形。
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