PERSONALITY
Book ID/图书代码： 01200004B06130
English Summary/英文概要： Maria Tambini is a 13-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up above her mother’s chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, living at the centre of her family’s dream of fame, Maria is an extraordinary girl making ready to escape the ordinary life.
We first meet her amidst the faded grandeur of the seaside resort of Rothesay, with the Argyll hills and the Eighties in front of her, and behind her a long shadow: the secret story of her Italian-immigrant family. When Maria wins a national TV talent show she is taken to London and becomes an instant star of what used to be called light entertainment; she sings with Dean Martin and tours America, can fill the London Palladium, yet all the while ’the girl with the giant voice’ is losing herself in fame and begins a private war against her own body. Maria becomes a living exhibit in the modern drama of celebrity: is it possible that she can be saved by love? Or is she to be consumed by an obsessive culture, by family lies and her number one fan?
The cast of characters is so vivid and complex that they seem to encompass within their enthralling stories a portrait of a whole society, its history and its spirit.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Maria Tambini是一个13岁的小女孩，她有着一副天籁般的嗓音，在苏格兰Bute岛的一个小镇长大，家人对她寄予了无限希望。Maria是一个特别的女孩，她时刻准备着逃离这平淡的生活。我们初次碰到她是在一个已被废弃的海边度假胜地Rothesay，在她面前的是阿盖尔郡山丘和一群80岁的老人，而在Maria背后却埋藏着一个天大的生世之迷，她原是来自一个意大利移民家庭。当她赢得了全国电视才能秀后，来到了伦敦，立刻成为了一个大众娱乐的超级明星，她和迪安•马丁一起唱歌，同游美国。这个女孩凭着她优美的嗓音使她所到之处都为之疯狂，她在这种名声之下她迷失了自己，开始了一场自我斗争，Maria成为了当代名人生活的一个鲜活的例子：她能否被爱情所救呢？她是否会继续沉沦呢？她会被家庭的谎言所牵连吗?又会如何对待她的第一号歌迷呢？本书对于人物进行了生动、复杂的刻画，通过这个精彩的故事来折射出整个社会的轮廓，历史形态以及它的活力。
Awards/获奖情况："The book is so bustling and rich...that the darkness seems lit from end to end."---The New Yorker"The New Yorker" (08/11/2003) ’O’Hagan’s writing is exhibition quality.’---Hugo Barnacle, New Statesman
’Told in peerless prose, it is utterly compelling...thrillingly multifaceted.’---Jackie McGlone, Scotland on Sunday
’Praise has been rightly heaped on O’Hagan for this complex, multi-metaphored, vivid and moving novel.’ ---Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
’A resonant, queasily compelling work of fiction; a complex, intelligent study of personal disintegration.’ ---Ajay Close, The Scotsman
About the Author/作者介绍： Andrew O’Hagan于1968年生于格拉斯哥。他是The Missing的作者，这本书出版于1995年，是他的前一部小说。Our Fathers获得了1999年英国布克文学奖(Booker Prize)提名。他现居住在伦敦。
Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968. His first book, The Missing, was published in 1995 and shortlisted for the Esquire/Waterstone’s/Apple Non-Fiction Award. Our Fathers, his debut novel, was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His second novel, Personality, was published in 2003 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. In January of that year Granta named him one of the ’Best of Young British Novelists’ and in April he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in London.
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