OPPOSED POSITIONS
Book ID/图书代码： 03540011B48861
English Summary/英文概要： At thirty, Aislinn Kelly is an occasional novelist with a near-morbid attunement to the motives of those around her. Isolated, restless and stuck, she decamps to America – a default recourse – this time to an attic room in Indianapolis, to attempt once again the definitive act of self-salvage.There are sharp memories to contend with as the summer heats up, and not least regarding her family history, now revealed as so botched and pitiful it seems it might yet cancel her out. She’s been bullied and belittled by her long-vanished father through a stream of emails, and now her mother is helplessly glorying in a second rancid marriage.There are also friendships lost or ailing: with bibulous playwright Karl, sly poet Erwin, depressed bookshop-wallah Bronagh, and Aislinn’s best friend Kathy, who has recently found God... Finally her thoughts turn to her last encounter with Jim Schmidt, a man she’s loved for ten years, hasn’t seen for five, yet still has to consider her opposite number in life.
Opposed Positions is a startlingly honest novel about the human predicament, about love and its substitutes, disgraceful or otherwise. Some of these people want to be free – of themselves, of each other – and some have darker imperatives. Wry, shocking, perfectly observed and utterly heart-breaking, the novel moves towards its troubling conclusion: a painful appreciation of what it is we’ve come from, and what we might be heading for.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Aislinn Kelly ，一个三十岁偶尔写作的作家，对她周围人所怀的动机有着几近病态的想象。孤立，焦躁，觉得自己深陷困境，她遍决心逃去美国，在印第安纳波利斯的一个小阁楼中又一次展开对自我的救赎。随着夏季气温的升高，Aislinn对过往的记忆越来越清晰。消失了很久的父亲用一长串的E-mail侮辱轻视她，而此时母亲正情不自禁地沐浴在第二次婚姻中。 Aislinn的友情也出现问题，包括与嗜酒的剧作家Karl，狡猾的诗人Erwin，失落的书店老板Wallah Bronagh，以及Aislinn最好的朋友Kathy，她最近信奉了上帝......最后她总是在想与Jim Schmidt的最后一次相遇，她爱了十年，而后五年没有见过面的男人。
《相对位置》揭露了惊人的现实：人类所面对的困境，爱及其替代品，尽管看起来是如此可耻。这些人中有些渴望自由，有些则有更阴暗的想法。啼笑皆非，令人震惊且观察入微，扣人心弦，这部小说最终得出了令人们不安的结局，我们来的地方很可能便是我们要去的地方。(兼职翻译-XAT)
Awards/获奖情况："Riley writes with a kind of defeated ecstasy" (Leo Robson Sunday Times)
"Scrupulous performance" (Kate Webb Times Literary Supplement)
"Although she works on a small canvas, Riley’s work is both intricate and expansive. Her prose is a continual joy to read, and the detail immensely satisfying: she can squeeze more resonance out of a misplaced apostrophe than others can from baroque, technicolour trauma" (Stuart Kelly Scotland on Sunday)
"Never less than enthralling" (Bookmunch)
"Riley’s appetite for risk-taking and vinegary apercus remains undiminished" (Emma Hagestadt Independent)
About the Author/作者介绍： Gwendoline Riley 出世在伦敦，在威勒尔长大。她在曼彻斯特城市大学学习英语，并成为《城市生活》杂志的文学编辑。
她是《冷水》（2002）的作者，此部作品赢得了2002年贝蒂拉斯克奖并被《卫报周末杂志》评为2002年五部最出色的处女作作品之一。《病假条》（2004）和《约书亚•斯帕斯基》（2007），于2008年获得毛姆小说奖。她还写短篇故事。 Gwendoline现生活在曼彻斯特 Gwendoline Riley was born in London and grew up on the Wirral. She studied English at Manchester Metropolitan University, and became literary editor of the magazine City Life.
She is the author of Cold Water (2002) which won a 2002 Betty Trask Award and was named one of five outstnding debut novels of 2002 by the Guardian Weekend magazine, Sick Notes (2004) and Joshua Spassky (2007) which won a 2008 Somerset Maugham award. She also writes short stories.
Gwendoline lives in Manchester.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：版权出售：英国通信：Jonathan Cape
德国：Schoffling事务所
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