THE BACKSLIDER: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 06000012B53541
English Summary/英文概要： The setting is Belfast in the 1970s. In a city in which any storefront might unexpectedly explode, Marius Moonston, age 16, is out shopping. It’s Saturday, and the streets are filled with danger and excitement—especially for Marius, whose pocket is burning with the money he has pilfered from his sister.
Marius has a mission (he knows just what he wants to spend that money on), and a conscience steeped in the dichotomies of the Evangelical church. Ricocheting through the story is the nature of deceit and truth, commerce, disobedience and sin. The consequences of a petty crime are enormous—cathartic and destructive and defining.
McGrady uses language of a distinctly Irish elasticity, and the explosive hilarity of a teenage boy propels the novel to crystalline moments of observation, and shattering self-knowledge.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事背景設置在70年代的貝爾法斯特。在這座城市中任何一家店面都有可能發生意外爆炸，16歲的Marius Moonston，出去購物。正值星期六，街道中充斥著驚險刺激 — — 尤其是對Marius來說，他的口袋裡剛揣著他從妹妹那裡偷來的錢。
Marius有一項使命(他知道如何使用他所要花的錢），浸淫在福音派教會一份對於良知的自責心境。通過對整篇故事反映出欺騙和真理，商業，抗命和罪惡的本性。所謂輕度犯罪小偷小摸所引發的後果是巨大的— — 具有一瀉千里和破壞性的作用。
McGrady運用突出的愛爾蘭靈活性的語言，一個十幾歲的男孩的爆炸性的興奮將這部小說映襯出作者清澈的時時觀察，令人震驚的自我認知。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况："機智而誠實的, 俏皮中帶有憂慮 — — 《Backslider》 是一部意義深刻的和非常令人愉快的小說"— — 羅迪•多伊爾
"Seàn McGrady呈現了一幕簡單的愉悅所引發的對於天真的喪失。在《The Backslider》每段句子中都獨具風味“奇特的，有時痛苦的抉擇世界”，就像通過16歲的Marius紛擾的精神世界軌跡。這個男孩的口袋裡揣有偷盜二裡的鈔票而他正位於更嚴重的麻煩邊緣，甚至也許是謀殺，期間這孩子的心路歷程充滿了興奮和極其的彷徨，時而令人冷峻不禁。現在他被捲入一些無政府主義的衝動中，現在的他受到城市角落裡那些不值一提的類型的影響而變得失去自控能力。那將是位於一座危險的城市中進退兩難的困境。現在揭曉McGrady的最大的迷局：他就是那位在七十年代早期貝爾法斯特的，徘徊於教堂的那位千瘡百孔的少年。猶如Flann O’Brien帶著他的花言巧語去斯大林格勒 — — 迷失在那裡的軍佇列陣。"— —《Earthquake I.D/地震識別》和《A Tomb on the Periphery/週邊的炸彈》的作者John Domini"Clever and honest, playful but disturbing--The Backslider is a demanding and hugely enjoyable novel." ---Roddy Doyle
"Seàn McGrady has brought loquacious delight to the loss of innocence. Every sentence in The Backslider savors “the peculiar and sometimes painful world of decisions,” as that world orbits through the tumultuous spirit of the 16-year-old Marius. The boy has a stolen bill in his pocket and he’s on the verge of more serious trouble, perhaps even murder, and meanwhile the peregrinations of the kid’s meditations pop and maunder wondrously, often hilariously. Now he’s swept up in some anarchic urge, and now he’s carried away by the no-account types on a city corner. A troubled corner, that would be, in a dangerous city. Yes, now for McGrady’s greatest trick: he does it in early-‘70s Belfast, church-riven and bullet-riddled. It’s as if Flann O’Brien took his blarney to Stalingrad — and there held the armies spellbound." ---John Domini, author of Earthquake I.D. and A Tomb on the Periphery
"With echoes of the distinctive humour and philosophical meditations inherited from a rich Irish literary legacy, The Backslider is an accomplished and deeply affecting novel, McGrady’s observations on the nature of adolescence are powerful and provocative." ---Ian Holding, author of Unfeeling: A Novel and Of Beasts and Beings
"I read The Backslider in one fell swoop, with increasing admiration and delight. An absolute stunning coming of age novel, set in The Troubles and you can literally smell the cordite and the litany of The Evangelical Church. Beautifully wrought with a skill that seems to be more in line with an assured half dozen books under your belt. Moving and drenched in the appalling consequences of an apparently petty act. Catcher in the Northern Province, with a compassion that echoes long after the book is read, and an assurance that here is anovel to return to over and wonderfully over." ---Ken Bruen, author of The Guards and The White Trilogy
About the Author/作者介绍： Seán McGrady，生於1955年北愛爾蘭的貝爾法斯特。原來是一位大學講哲學師科和自由作家/編輯。小說: 《(2012) Backlsider》，《The Bastard Pleasure /混蛋的快樂(Forthcoming, September 2012)》（即將在2012年9月上市）。均由Dzanc出版發展。代理商位址： Pamela Malpas, Harold Ober Associates, New York. USA.Seán McGrady was raised in Belfast, immersed in the religious and political ideas that defined the Irish Troubles. A former university lecturer in philosophy, he lives in York, England.
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