GEORGE EVANS: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 12580012B56077
English Summary/英文概要： In the novel George Evans, the title character and his friend Charles Fletcher both aspire to live the alluring life of an international banker in 1960s London. Told in the form of a conversation between George and another old friend, this novel recounts the dual quest of George and Charles. Their story begins outside the London offices of Thomson Guthrie, an American private bank. They take an immediate liking to each other over lunch. Charles is merely passing through London, though, and soon returns to New York to begin his banking career. The two friends are briefly reunited when Charles takes a job at Thomson Guthrie in London, but are separated again when Charles returns to New York.
After the devaluation of sterling in 1967 and the boom in shipping created by the Arab-Israeli war, Thomson Guthrie decides it needs a shipping division, and appoints Charles and George to run it. Because Thomson Guthrie is an American bank, Charles is named head and George is his number two.
It is George, however, who has a better understanding of banking and keeps Thomson Guthrie from losingmoney. George begins to resent Charles until one night when Charles quotes advice from his father: “The worst thing that anyone can do is to spend his life doing something he does not want to do.” Interpreting this as a personal statement, George decides to give Charles’ life more meaning. Through love affairs, familial connections, and a changing banking industry, George and Charles remain friends.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 20世纪60年代，小说中的同名主人翁乔治•埃文斯和他的朋友查尔斯•弗莱彻都渴望着能够在伦敦拥有国际银行家般充满诱惑的人生。小说以乔治和另一名旧友的对话形式展开，回忆了乔治与查尔斯当年对生活的双重探索。他们的故事开始于伦敦郊外一家名为汤姆森•格思里的美国私人银行，在一顿午餐中，他们初识对方，志趣相投的他们只觉得相见恨晚。然而查尔斯只是在伦敦稍作停留，不久便将回到纽约开始他的银行家生涯。当查尔斯在汤姆森银行就职，两个朋友有了短暂的相聚，而查尔斯回到美国则是小聚后的再次分离。 1967年，英镑贬值，中东战争爆发，航运大受影响。汤姆森银行决定成立一个专属航运司，并决定指派查尔斯和乔治全权负责。因为美资银行的关系，查尔斯被任命为主要负责人，而乔治则位居副职。
然而真正有着经营头脑的却是乔治，正是他使得汤姆森银行远离亏损。乔治开始对查尔斯心怀怨念，然而直到一日查尔斯向乔治引用了父亲的一句话：”人最大的不幸是花费一生的精力去从事一份根本不热爱的事业。“，直至此时，乔治才终于幡然醒悟，他决心帮助查尔斯，使他的人生更加精彩而有意义。经历了一系列的爱情纠葛，亲情维系以及银行业的变迁，乔治与查尔斯终于成了一生的挚友。(DC)
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About the Author/作者介绍： A.F.吉罗蒂，曾就读于耶鲁大学，拥有南加利福尼亚大学学位，并曾在军队情报部门工作了3年时间。作者曾于纽约银行信托公司工作了十年，主要负责借贷与航运业务。1980年，当吉罗蒂在企业融资与私人银行工作了15个年头，他决定移居伦敦。其第一部小说《船商之死》在1981年出版问世，其后第二部小说《浮沫》出版于1984年，该部小说讲述了西非的银行业辛迪加组织。2010年《浮沫》由芝加哥学术出版社再次发行。 A. F. Gillotti has degrees from Yale and the University of North Carolina and spent three years in Army intelligence. Heworked for Bankers Trust Company in New York for ten years, where he specialized in country lending and ship finance. In 1980 he transferred to London where he worked in corporate finance and private banking for fifteenyears. His first novel, Death of a Ship Owner, was published in 1981. It was followed in 1984 by Skim, a novel about a banking syndication inWest Africa. Skim was reissued in 2010 by Academy Chicago.
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