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上传日期:2012-5-31 0:00:00

TALES FROM THE MALL

Book ID/图书代码: 04560012B54932

English Summary/英文概要: Fashion. Food Courts. Lingerie. Fire Bombing. Suicide. Free Parking. Welcome to the Mall. Why would one woman threaten to kill another for a pair of discounted shoes? Why are cross-dressers drawn to mall car parks? What do impulse buys have to do with rioting? And why are market research companies hiding the truth from us? From one of the UK s most acclaimed literary and media talents, Tales From The Mall, is a mash-up of fiction, essays and true stories, that tells the rise of the most iconic symbol of our modern age the shopping mall. From over a hundred interviews and confessions, Morrison re-tells the true-life tales of those who work, shop and even find love inside their walls. With wry wit, insight and compassion, Morrison uncovers the secrets of retail heaven and hell, to reveal how malls manipulate our emotions in cleverly calculated ways, how they are an ideal space to meet a new lover or to kill yourself and how they are taking over the world. A startling window on our time, to make you think, fear and laugh. Retail will never be therapy again.

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 時尚、美食廣場、性感內衣、威脅炸彈引起的火災、自殺、免費停車……歡迎來到百貨商店。爲什麽會有一個女人爲了搶一雙打折鞋子威脅著要殺另一個女人?爲什麽會有人穿著奇裝異服跑到百貨商店的停車場里?衝動購物和暴亂有什麽關係?市場調查公司又爲什麽不讓我們知道真相?英國最著名的文學和媒體精英Ewan Morrison寫小說、散文和真實的故事對現代社會的標誌:大型購物中心進行了辛辣的諷刺。

通過一百多場訪談和暢談,Morrison揭露了在購物中心工作、購物甚至找到真愛人們的真實故事。Morrison諷刺、深入的觀察和抒情的同情揭發了這個零售天堂和地獄的秘密。告訴讀者購物中心是如何狡猾地影響我們的感情,爲什麽這個地方是邂逅愛人和自殺的理想場所?購物中心又是如何操控著世界?購物再也不是什麽療傷良藥啦!Morrison給我們提供了一扇讓我們思考、害怕、爆笑的窗口。(Celia)

Awards/获奖情况:“Morrison是一位態度嚴謹的大天才”——《泰晤士報》

“《Tales from the mall》是本傑出的書,它感人、有啓發,是一種全新的故事描寫方式。值得大家欣賞。”——《A Million Little Pieces》作者James Frey

“此書為我們展現了日常生活的真相,購物中心的黑暗噩夢和飄渺虛夢,以及用敏銳的筆觸和溫柔的同情心描寫的生活在其中的人們。”——科斯塔獎獲得者,《What was Lost》作者Catherine O’Flynn

"One of the most innovative and groundbreaking books published in the last couple of decades. Mixing disciplines and drifting between fiction and fact, Ewan Morrison deconstructs the stultifying Venus fly-trap of the society and culture we’ve constructed under consumer capitalism." -Irvine Welsh, author of ’Trainspotting’, ’Skagboys’.

“Tales From the Mall is a great book. It’s touching and emotional and part of a new form of literary storytelling. It’s worth reading, worth loving.”-James Frey, author of ’A Million Little Pieces’

“Ewan Morrison captures beautifully the point at which anecdote becomes urban myth and reportage slides into fiction. This feels like a really important step toward a fiction of the 21st century.” -Claire Armitstead, Books Editor, The Guardian.

“Morrison continues Ballard’s tradition of locating menace beneath the sleekness and shine of postindustrial life. You also learn a lot along the way. A truly interesting book.” -Douglas Coupland, author of ‘Generation X’

“A writer of serious intent and prodigious talent”-THE TIMES

“A wonderful and important book that does the most difficult thing: laying bare the overlooked everyday world in which we live. The dark dreams and lightweight fantasies of shopping malls and those within them are exposed with incredible acuity and great tenderness.” -Catherine O’Flynn, Costa prize winning author of ‘What Was Lost’

"Welcome to a new kind of 21st-century storytelling. This remarkable collection of writing is hard to categorise in any orthodox sense, but it is a brilliant and often profound form of literature that says more about the modern human condition than a hundred more conventional novels might. The genius of Tales from the Mall is that Morrison plays everything with a straight bat. There are pieces of writing here that will make you cry, others that will give you a warm glow about humanity, and still others that will make you despair at the state of the world."-Scotland On Sunday

"Morrison has pulled together a wealth of information and anecdotes to create a vibrantly funny and genuinely scary portrait of our times." -The List

“The most groundbreaking and moving book to come out of Britain in years. A dazzling book about everyday peple trying to find heart in a heartless place. Morrison is so far ahead of the zeitgeist it’s frightening.”-Doug Johnstone, author of ’Hit & Run’

“‘A definitive expedition into the alternative universe death-star environment of the mall. Sure-footed, smart and necessary. Morrison unpicks security barriers between genres, documenting his fictions, and smacking us with real-world retrievals. I was grateful for every word of it.”-Iain Sinclair, writer and filmmaker. author of ‘Ghost Milk’

“This feels like a really important step toward a fiction of the 21st century.” – THE GUARDIAN

About the Author/作者介绍: Ewan Morrison著有五本書《SWUNG》、《MENAGE》、《DISTANCE》和短篇故事集《THE LAST BOOK YOU READ》,以及最近新書《Close your eyes》和《Tales from the Mall》。他的第一本小說《SWUNG》已出售電影版權,并定於2012年開拍。Ewan擔任電視電影導演和劇作家有十年之久,獲得過電影和電視藝術學院獎。他的動畫片和網上作品也獲得好評。

Ewan Morrison is the acclaimed author of Swung, Menage, Distance and The Last Book You Read. He is a BAFTA award nominated filmmaker and lives in Glasgow.

Format:电子手稿

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