SEX AND THE RIVER STYX

Book ID/图书代码： 03008012B57270

English Summary/英文概要： Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author’s sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in his rural Connecticut, his days as a circus worker, and his travels the world over in his later years. Here, we meet Hoagland at his best: traveling to Kampala, Uganda, to meet a family he’d been helping support only to find a divide far greater than he could have ever imagined; reflecting on aging, love, and sex in a deeply personal, often surprising way; and bringing us the wonder of wild places, alongside the disparity of losing them, and always with a twist that brings the genre of nature writing to vastly new heights. His keen dissection of social realities and the human spirit will both startle and lure readers as they meet African matriarchs, Tibetan yak herders, circus aerialists, and the strippers who entertained college boys in 1950s Boston. Says Howard Frank Mosher in his foreword, the self-described rhapsodist “could fairly be considered our last, great transcendentalist.”

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 爱德华.霍格兰被诸如菲利普.罗斯、约翰.阿普戴克和爱德华.艾比这样的杰出文学家称赞是其所处时代最优秀的随笔作家。如今，爱德华.霍格兰的终极作品集横空出世。在《性与冥河》中，随处可感受到作者犀利的眼光和强烈的好奇心。这些随笔故事记录了他而儿时在康乃狄克州乡间探索丛林的时光，他从事马戏团工作的日子，他环球旅行的过程以及他生命的最后时刻。再次，我们看到了处在最佳时期的霍兰德：他出访乌干达手都坎帕拉，与某个他曾今给予帮助的家庭相见，为的只是寻找到一中比他想象中更加伟大的分享；他以极具个性、但却令人意想不到的方式对年龄、爱情以及性进行反思；他带领我们领略了荒野的魅力，以及失去它们的失落。他的故事总是迂回曲折，使得自然写作这个文种在多个方面达到新的高度。他对社会现实和人类精神的敏锐分析将会令读者感到震惊，同时被深深吸引。在霍兰德的笔下，读者将会结识非洲女族长、西藏牦牛牧者、马戏团杂技演员以及20世纪50年代娱乐波士顿大学男孩的脱衣舞女。霍华德.弗兰克.莫舍在本书的前言里如是评论，自我描述的狂文作者“绝对算得上我们最后一位伟大的超验主义者。”（XMM）

Awards/获奖情况：“一本华丽宏伟的作品集——除此之外，以强烈有力的方式讲述了作者自己的生活经历。”——保罗.鲁泰

"A superb collection—and more than that, a powerful narrative of the life of the man himself."—Paul Theroux

About the Author/作者介绍： 爱德华.霍兰德已经出版了20本文学以及非文学作品，他有关旅行和自然的随笔文章广受好评。重要作品包括：《驯兽师》（这是他的第一部作品，获得了1954年霍顿.米夫林文学奖奖学金），《行走在死亡钻石河》（1974年国家图书奖提名作品），《非洲女神》（1980年美国书卷奖提名作品），以及《拖船船员的旅程》（1982年国家图书评论奖提名作品）。20世纪50年代他在哈佛读书的同时也玲玲马戏团工作，随后周游世界为哈珀出版社、《国家地理》以及其它杂志撰写作品。他两次获得古根海姆学者奖，1982年入选美国文学艺术学术会。霍兰德是《1999年最佳美国散文》的编辑，曾在新学院大学、罗格斯大学、沙拉.劳伦斯学院、纽约市里大学、爱荷华州立大学、加州大学戴维斯分校、哥伦毕业大学、伯洛伊特学院以及布朗大学任教。2005年，他从佛蒙特州贝宁顿学院退休。目前，作者住在被佛蒙特州。

Widely celebrated for his essays on travel and nature, Edward Hoagland has written more than twenty books. Both fiction and nonfiction, his works include Cat Man (his first book, which won the 1954 Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship), Walking the Dead Diamond River (a 1974 National Book Award nominee), African Calliope (a 1980 American Book Award nominee), and The Tugman’s Passage (a 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee). He worked at the Barnum & Bailey Circus while attending Harvard in the early 1950s and later traveled around the world writing for Harper’s, National Geographic, and other magazines. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships and in 1982 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hoagland was the editor of The Best American Essays for 1999, and taught at The New School, Rutgers, Sarah Lawrence, CUNY, the University of Iowa, UC Davis, Columbia University, Beloit College, and Brown University. In 2005, he retired from a teaching position at Bennington College in Vermont. He lives in northern Vermont.

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