THE STONE THROWER
Book ID/图书代码： 03240312B52934
English Summary/英文概要： • Second collection of short stories from winner of the Arts Foundation Fellowship in the Short Story
• Features Sunday Times EFG Prize shortlisted story‘Fewer Things. National review coverage guaranteed.
• Stories bound together by a central, unifying theme: namely the experience of caring for, and bringing up, a child of special needs and/or of a particular physical vulnerability
• Leading exponent of steam-punk absurdismIntelligent clothing, superhero dictators, contagion-carrying computer games, cross-species reproduction… Welcome to the surreal and startling world of Adam Marek; a menagerie of futuristic technology, animistic concerns and defunct iconography – a place where the absurd and the mundane make unlikely, and surprisingly agreeable, bedfellows.Unlike Marek’s first collection, the acclaimed Instruction Manual for Swallowing, these stories are strung together with a single, unifying concern: the theme of parental anxiety over a particularly vulnerable child. Whether setting his stories in alternative versions of the future or the past, or rooting them entirely in the all-too-real, they mark a growing maturity and expansion of scope and ambition for one of the UK’s most exciting young writers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 智能服裝，超級英雄的獨裁者，帶有病毒的電腦遊戲，跨物種複製品…歡迎來到Adam Marek離奇而令人震驚世界；一種在未來的先進技術、萬物有靈論的問題和已失效的影像 — — 創造出一個荒誕而夢幻般的世界，竟然是令人愉悅而饑不擇食的地方。不同於Marek的第一部作品，備受好評的《Instruction Manual for Swallowing》，這些故事被串成一個單獨的故事，共同涉及：父母對於特別脆弱孩子的焦慮重心。他的這些故事交替于未來和過去，或完全來源於真實世界，標誌著英國這位最令人激動的年輕作家，日益成熟和不斷拓寬視野的雄心壯志。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：*來自藝術基金會短篇故事獎得主的第二部故事選集*風靡全國的‘Fewer Things’入圍《星期日泰晤士報》EFG特別獎
*通過主要的線索將幾個故事聯繫在一起，統一的主題為：也就是關愛，和養育在一個特殊年代裡/或一種特殊脆弱身體條件下孩子的需求的經歷
*引領蒸汽朋克式荒誕主義的潮流
Rights available: Worldwide
Praise for previous collection, Instruction Manual for Swallowing:
‘There’s a transgressive thrill to Adam Marek’s debut collection of short stories that’s not simply a result of the potency of the subject matter... delightful.’---The Guardian.
‘Early McEwan meets David Cronenberg.... genuine, unsettling talent’---The Independent.
About the Author/作者介绍： Adam Marek 生於1974年，他是兩部短篇小說《Instruction Manual for Swallowing/吞咽運動手冊》和《The Stone Thrower/投石者》的作者。他的作品曾被刊登和出現在《展望》，《New Writing 15》雜誌，（2003年和2005年）布裡德波特詩歌獎和（2006年Comma出版社）。2008年，《Instruction Manual for Swallowing》入圍Frank O’Connor獎。2010年，Adam被《星期日泰晤士報》選為瑞士盈豐私人銀行獎，並在2011年1月，被宣佈為短篇故事藝術基金會獎學金得主。最後一次被這個基金會授予短篇小說類獎項的得主是阿莉•史密斯和蜜雪兒•法貝爾。
2007年，由《哈利•波特與魔法石》中的演員伊恩•哈特在倫敦的WordTheatre網站上朗誦。
Adam和妻兒現在居住在貝德福德郡。
Adam Marek was born in 1974, and is the author of two collections of short stories: Instruction Manual for Swallowing (Comma Press, 2008) and The Stone Thrower (Comma Press 2012). His stories have appeared in Prospect magazine, New Writing 15 ( edited by Maggie Gee and Bernardine Evaristo), The Bridport Prize Anthology (2003 and 2005) and Parenthesis (Comma Press, 2006). In 2008, Instruction Manual for Swallowing was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor prize. In 2010 Adam was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Prize, and in Jan 2011 Adam was announced the winner of the Arts Foundation Fellowship in Short Story Writing. The last time this fellowship was awarded in the short story category it was shared by Ali Smith and Michel Faber.In 2007, his story‘Testicular Cancer vs the Behemoth’was read by Ian Hart (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) at the WordTheatre event in London. Adam lives in Bedfordshire with his wife and sons.
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