CHILDISH LOVES
Book ID/图书代码： 11701211B48037
English Summary/英文概要： A novel about the secrets that made Lord Byron’s editor burn his memoirs after his death, Childish Loves explores the difficult relations between art and life, and love and innocence ...
When his former colleague, Peter Sullivan, dies, Ben Markovits inherits the English teacher’s unpublished manuscripts about the life of Lord Byron - including the novels Imposture and A Quiet Adjustment.
Ben’s literary career is in the doldrums, and he tries to revive it by publishing and writing about his dead friend, whose re-imagining of Byron’s lost memoirs - titled Childish Loves - may provide a key to Sullivan’s own life and tarnished reputation
Acting as literary sleuth, Ben sorts through boxes of Sullivan’s writing, reads between the lines of his scandalous, Byron-inspired stories, convenes with the Society for the Publication of the Dead, and tracks down people from Peter’s past in an effort to untangle rumor from reality.
In the process, he crafts a masterful story-within-a-story that turns on uncomfortable questions about childhood and sexual awakening, innocence and attraction, while penetrating the lives of three very different writers and their brushes with success and failure in both literature and life.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本杰明马尔科维茨的《拜伦》三部曲的最后一部小说中，文学谜题的最后一部分终于解开了。当彼得沙利文离世，本杰明马尔科维茨接手了这位前同事撰写的，关于英国19世纪著名诗人“拜伦勋爵”生平，未来得及出版的手稿，包括小说《欺骗》和《心静调节》。最近有些力不从心的本，试图通过整理和发表故友未尽的作品，来重振信心，他重新设想了拜伦那些遗失的回忆录，将本书命名Wie‘幼稚的爱’，也许能让读者得以一窥逝者沙利文自己的平生和受污的声誉。
作为一名文字侦探，本重新整理了故友沙利文的作品；从他被报道的备受诟病的字里行间中找出蛛丝马迹；与死者的出版社协会见面；并找出和彼得生前有过交集的人，试着从中现实中理清谣言的头绪。在这个过程中，他精心打造了一个故事中的故事，围绕着童年和性觉醒，纯真和吸引，这些令人不安的问题展开，探索了三位截然不同作家的生活，以及他们在各自文坛和生活所经历的成就和失败。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 1973年出生的本杰明马尔科维茨，在得克萨斯州，伦敦和柏林几个城市间度过成长岁月。放弃了自己前途无望的职业篮球运动员生涯，转而投人研习浪漫主义，由于之前的经历，而撰写了小说《比赛的日子》(Playing Days)。从那以后，他曾当过高中英语老师，还在一家左翼文化杂志工作过，并为《纽约时报》、《时尚先生》美国版杂志，英国文学杂志《格兰塔》，《伦敦书评》和《巴黎评论》期刊等撰写文章，故事和评论。他曾发表了几部获奖小说，其中包括曾获得2016年度詹姆斯泰特布莱克小说奖(James Tait Black Prize)。2009年，他曾位哈佛大学拉德克利夫高级研究院的研究员，凭借短篇小说“人类历史上又一段悲伤离奇的篇章”，而获得美国短篇小说奖手推车奖(Pushcart Prize)。2013年，英国文学杂志《格兰塔》将其推选为‘英国最优秀的年轻小说家’，2015年，他获得了埃克尔斯大英图书馆常驻作家奖。《纽约的周末》曾入围获得JQ温盖特文学奖(JQ Wingate Prize)，之后发表的《奥斯汀的圣诞》于2019年由费伯出版社发行。作者最近的小说《伙伴》(The Sidekick)将于2022年出版。本杰明马尔科维茨目前定居伦敦，在伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院分校教授创意写作。想要更多的了解作者，可登录其个人网站：www.benjaminmarkovits.com。Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He left an unpromising career as a professional basketball player to study the Romantics. Since then he has taught high school English, edited a left-wing cultural magazine and written essays, stories and reviews for, among other publications, the New York Times, the Guardian, London Review of Books and the Paris Review. He has lived in London since 2000 and is married with a daughter and a son. He teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Faber
US: Norton
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