FEAST DAY OF FOOLS: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码: 10820011B46384
English Summary/英文概要: Celebrated crime master and two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke returns with a gorgeously crafted, brutally resonant chronicle of violence along the Texas-Mexico border.
Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town, meting out punishment and delivering justice in his small square of this magnificent but lawless land. When an alcoholic ex-boxer named Danny Boy Lorca begs to be locked up after witnessing a man tortured to death by a group of bandits, Hack and his deputy, Pam Tibbs, slowly extract the Indian man’s gruesome tale. It becomes clear that the desert contains a multitude of criminals, including serial murderer Preacher Jack Collins (whom The New York Times Book Review called “one of Burke’s most inspired villains”).
Holland’s investigation leads him to Anton Ling, a mysterious Chinese woman whose steely demeanor and aristocratic beauty compel Hackberry to return to her home again and again as the investigation unfolds.
James Lee Burke is at his engrossing and atmospheric best in this, his thirtieth novel, as Hackberry plumbs the depths of man’s inhumanity to man—from killers-for-hire, to the U.S. government, to the misguided souls in search of a better life across the border.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 德州警长哈克伯里霍兰德为故事原型的,一部充满了惊险刺激的,美国西部文学巨著。警长哈克伯里霍兰德在德州西南边境小镇边巡逻,小镇居民们对这位恪尽职守的警长充满了敬仰。仍在丧失爱妻之殇中的警长,和他的副手帕姆蒂布斯,并与比他小几十岁的副手帕姆蒂布斯(Pam Tibbs)陷入一段近乎浪漫的危险恋情,而哈克伯里靠惩戒恶徒,来禁锢自己内心的恶魔。
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Awards/获奖情况:入圍2012年漢密特獎(Hammett Prize)"As Burke steers the elaborately structured narrative toward its violent conclusion, we are afforded looks inside the tortured psyches of his various combatants, finding there the most unlikely of connections between the players. This is one of Burke’s biggest novels, in terms of narrative design, thematic richness, and character interplay, and he rises to the occasion superbly, a stand-up guy at the keyboard, as always. . . . Though he is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series, the broader canvas of this Hackberry Holland adventure makes a fittingly grand stage on which to play out such a landmark event in American publishing."---Bill Ott, Booklist (starred review)
About the Author/作者介绍: James Lee Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, is the author of twenty-nine previous novels and two collections of short stories, including such New York Times bestsellers as The Glass Rainbow, Swan Peak, The Tin Roof Blowdown, Last Car to Elysian Fields and Rain Gods. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
詹姆斯·李·伯克(James Lee Burke)是美國犯罪小說作家,尤以戴夫·羅比喬克斯(Dave Robicheaux)系列聞名。
他1936年生於德克薩斯州休斯頓,成長於德克薩斯路易斯安那灣沿岸。他在西南路易斯安那學院(Southwestern Louisiana Institute)求學,之後分別於1958年和1960年獲得了密蘇里大學英語學士學位和碩士學位。他做過很多工作,諸如新可裏安石油公司負責人(Sinclair Oil Company)、管道工、土地調查員、報紙記者、大學教師等。
他和妻子波爾(Pearl)相識於大學期間,至今結褵已有48年,育有4個孩子。小吉姆(Jim Jr.)是美國律師事務所得力助手;安吉(Andree),是學校心理教師;帕瑪拉(Pamala)是電視廣告製作人;奧拉菲爾(Alafair)是法律系教授也是小說家,已有4本小說出版,也是犯罪小說的寫手。詹姆斯還有4個外孫。
詹姆斯·李·伯克(James Lee Burke)著有23部小說,包括紐約時報暢銷書《馬齒莧》(Bitterroot)、《紫藤徑》(Purple Cane Road)、《西馬侖玫瑰》(Cimarron Rose)、《喬莉·布侖的反彈力》(Jolie Blon’s Bounce)、《迪克西城堵塞》(Dixie City Jam)。憑藉《憂傷黑櫻桃》(Black Cherry Blues)和《西馬侖玫瑰》(Cimarron Rose)獲得兩屆愛倫坡獎(Edgar Awards),實屬罕見。《憂傷黑櫻桃》(Black Cherry Blues)的成功使他放棄了教育工作,全心寫作。他和妻子住在美國蒙大拿州米蘇拉(Missoula)和路易斯安那州新伊比利亞半島(New Iberia)。
伯克以其戴夫·羅比喬克斯(Dave Robicheaux)系列聞名。戴夫是隸屬伊比利亞半島區的偵探,他明辨是非,偶爾也會酗酒,在混沌不清的世界裏尋求正義。羅比喬克斯已兩度被搬上銀幕,一次是由艾歷克·鮑德溫(Alec Baldwin)的《天堂囚徒》(Heaven’s Prisoners),還有一次是湯米李瓊斯(Tommy Lee Jones)的《電霧彌漫》(In the Electric Mist)。伯克還寫了7部沒有分類的犯罪小說,2部短篇故事合集以及4本以德克薩斯代理人比利·鮑勃·霍蘭德(Billy Bob Holland)為主角的書。他寫人性的墮落,他的風度以及美麗與醜陋的一面。他在全球擁有數百萬讀者,為他贏得了紐約時報暢銷作家地位。
伯克1965年出版了他的處女作《天堂的1/2》(Half of Paradise),緊接著分別於1970和1971出版了《耀眼的太陽》(To the Bright and Shining Sun)和《放下武器》(Lay Down My Sword and Shield)。這兩本書的大賣奠定了他作家的地位。儘管第三本的銷量不盡如人意,他力排眾難還是堅持寫作。1986年他出版了他的第四部小說《失而復得的布吉樂》(The Lost Get Back Boogie)。這本書後來成了紐約出版史上最不被接納的作品,但卻為他贏得了普立茲獎提名。
伯克的小說有自己的特色:地域描寫生動、對白簡潔扼要、突來的身體暴力,正是這一系列特徵的結合,讓人對他的小說愛不釋手。他的作品批評來源即涉及過多暴力。
伯克兩次獲封愛倫坡年度最佳犯罪小說獎。他還獲得了古根漢獎(Breadloaf and Guggenheim Fellowship)和NEA獎(NEA grant)。他的短篇小說出版在眾多刊物,包括每月大西洋(The Atlantic Monthly)、南方新故事(New Stories from the South)、美國最佳短篇故事(Best American Short Stories)、安迪歐克書評(Antioch Review)、南方評論(Southern Review)、墾陽書評(The Kenyon Review)。
伯克獲得2003年路易斯安那州作家獎(Louisiana Writer Award),表彰他對路易斯安那州文學遺產的貢獻。他3次獲得了全美神秘作家獎(the Mystery Writers of America)和2009年的,全美神秘作家大師獎(MWA’s Grand Master Award)。
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