POWER BALLADS
Book ID/图书代码： 02330011B45912
English Summary/英文概要： Real musicians don’t sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The ten linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician.
From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is often simply work, but also where it can, in rare moments, become a source of grace and transcendence, speaking about the things we never seem to say to each other. A skilled but snobby jazz drummer joins a costumed heavy metal band to pay his rent. A country singer tries to turn her brutal past into a successful career. A vengeful rock critic reenters the life of an emerging singer-songwriter, bent on wreaking havoc. The characters in Power Ballads—aging head-bangers, jobbers, techno DJs, groupies, and the occasional rock star (and those who have to live with them)—need music to survive, yet find themselves lost when the last note is played, the lights go up, and it’s time to return to regular life.
By turns melancholy and hilarious, Power Ballads is not only a deeply felt look at the lives of musicians but also an exploration of the secret music that plays inside us all.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 真正的音乐家不给乐迷签名、不跨界当模特也不乘私人飞机。他们大多躲在练歌房或者地下室等地狂练不止。这里介绍的就是这样默默无闻的工作狂音乐人。 这些故事源自一个不为人知的世界---那里音乐是简单的工作，也是优雅超脱的来源。一个娴熟但势力的爵士鼓手加入了一个化妆重金属乐队。一位乡村歌手试图掩盖成名前的残酷过往。一位报复性的摇滚评论想要重操旧业。本书人物众多，个性鲜明，他们全都需要音乐的救赎，然后在音乐里迷惘、摸索。有时欢乐有时略显忧郁。这不仅反映了音乐人的生活，也是针对为何音乐能深入人心的探索。(兼职翻译-XJJ)
Awards/获奖情况：李亦云(Yiyun Li)：“看这里的故事就好像认识了一个乐队：歌词旋律不知不觉渗入你心，让你渴望有一个人跟你哭跟你笑。他真是个特别的作家。”
安•比缇（Ann Beattie）：“我算是熟悉作者的写作风格的，但是这些个故事还是令我毫无防备，直插心底。真是不可思议。”
汤姆•富兰克林（Tom Franklin）：“威尔是最棒的。本书还原真实，结合成集，是新生代的美国之音。”
About the Author/作者介绍： 威尔•波斯特（Will Boast）生于英格兰，长于爱尔兰及威斯康辛。他的小说常常见于发光的列车（Glimmer Train）、密西西比评论（Mississippi Review）等各类刊物，并即将登上美国学者（American Scholar）。他是弗吉尼亚大学艺术硕士，也是斯坦福前斯黛娜盟会成员。目前，他居于旧金山，正着手开展一部新作。那是长篇小说，也是传记。 Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices 2009, Narrative, Glimmer Train, the Southern Review, Mississippi Review, and other publications and is forthcoming in the American Scholar. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Currently, he lives and writes in San Francisco and moonlights as a performing musician around the Bay Area. He’s working on both a novel and a memoir.
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