THE MAGIC CIRCLE

Book ID/图书代码： 00500012B55910

English Summary/英文概要： Three young women are obsessed with games of all kinds, devoting themselves to both the academic study of play and the design of games based on the secret history of the neighborhood around Columbia University. When live-action role-playing based on classic Greek tragedy is introduced, the games get dangerous.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 三名年轻的女子痴迷于各类游戏，她们不仅潜心研究游戏的玩法，还致力于设计游戏---根据哥伦比亚大学旁那个街区的神秘历史。然而当一个基于经典希腊悲剧的实演角色扮演游戏被她们采用后，游戏开始变得益发危险起来。(DC & CK)

Awards/获奖情况：“《魔社》充满了优雅的气息，却又聪明到残酷，但却又满溢着致命的吸引力---一如惠特·斯蒂尔曼导演的《秘史》，欢快却又仿若催眠般的精彩故事，有关于那些女性所玩的，或是在同伴身上上演的残酷游戏。” -梅根·阿伯特(Megan Abbott)，作家，著有《敢不敢》

“多年来，那些想寻求兼具渊博，机智，活力以及灵越智慧的博客的人都会前往詹妮·戴维森的博客，她总是用最浅显易懂的口吻讲述着那些深刻而睿智的事情。她一直以来都极具影响力，如今这部书再次震撼了我们。想象埃利斯·默多克开辟出一种珍妮特·伊瓦诺维奇的风格，再附带有一丝詹姆斯博士那种极度吸引人的纯艺术叙事方式，那么你可以对戴维森的小说风格有所略知一二了。这正是我们寻觅的那本书，读来如此美好。" -肯·布鲁恩(Ken Bruen)，作家，著有《赶车人布鲁斯》和《守卫》

“这本书犹如由21世纪的莫里哀·斯帕克所创作一般，讲述着关于聪明的女人，危险的游戏，影射着我们在生活中所扮演的角色，全书深深的吸引着我，大爱。” -莎拉·格兰，作者，著有《克莱尔·德维特》和《死亡与毒品之城》

“The Magic Circle is elegant, brutally smart, and utterly absorbing--The Secret History as directed by Whit Stillman...A delirious, hypnotic page-turner about the ruthless games female friends play with, and on, each other.” -Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me

“For many years, those in search of an erudite, smart, sassy, vibrantly intelligent mystery blog went to Jenny Davidson, and she wrote too of deeply intellectual matters on an easy in her face tone. She rocked. And now…The novel. Bliss. Imagine Iris Murdoch, channeling Janet Evanovich and cribbing the sheer art of P.D. James’s gripping storytelling, and you’d have the tone and flavour of Davidson’s novel. It’s that book, and oh so beautifully readable. "-Ken Bruen, author of The Hackman Blues and The Guards

“Like a novel by a 21st-century Muriel Spark, this book about smart women, dangerous games, and the roles we play in life enthralled me. I loved it.” -Sara Gran, author of Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead and Dope

"Jenny Davidson has inspired Sparkian comparisons with her new novel, "The Magic Circle," an adventurous imagination at play and Davidson’s formidable intelligence is like an electric current running through the pages of this compendious book…. Blending first- and third-person narration with blog posts, group chat, and diary entries … the book hurtles headlong toward a catastrophic finish….The strength of "The Magic Circle" lies in the way the novel’s three intellectually accomplished female characters simultaneously complement one another’s cleverness and expose one another’s blind spots."

please find full review at the link below http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-jenny-davidson-20130331,0,4676058.story

About the Author/作者介绍： JENNY DAVIDSON(born 1971) is an American historian and writer who writes about 18th-century literature, etiquette and culture. She is currently an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She was a Guggenheim Fellow during 2005-2006 and was named a visiting scholar to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences that same year. Davidson was awarded the Mark Van Doren Award in 2010 for her commitment to undergraduate instruction. An alumna of Harvard University, Davidson completed her Ph.D. at Yale University in 1999. Her dissertation Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004.

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