LIFE AMONG GIANTS
Book ID/图书代码： 00342512B57484
English Summary/英文概要： At seventeen, David “Lizard” Hochmeyer is nearly seven feet tall, a star quarterback, and Princeton-bound. His future seems all but assured until his parents are mysteriously murdered, leaving Lizard and his older sister, Kate, adrift and alone. Sylphide, the world’s greatest ballerina, lives across the pond from their Connecticut home, in a mansion the size of a museum, and it turns out that her rock star husband’s own disasters have intersected with Lizard’s—and Kate’s—in the most intimate and surprising ways.
Over the decades that follow, Lizard and Kate are obsessed with uncovering the motives behind the deaths, returning time and again to their father’s missing briefcase, his shady business dealings and shaky finances, and to Sylphide, who has threaded her way into Lizard’s and Kate’s lives much more deeply than either had ever realized. From the football fields of Princeton to a stint with the NFL, from elaborate dances at the mansion to the seductions lying in wait for Lizard, and ultimately to the upscale restaurant he opens in his hometown, it only takes Lizard a lifetime to piece it all together.
A wildly entertaining novel of murder, seduction, and revenge—rich in incident, in expansiveness of character, and in lavishness of setting—it’s a Gatsby-esque adventure, a larger-than-life quest for answers that reveals how sometimes the greatest mystery lies in knowing one’s own heart.Show More
Chinese Summary/中文概要： David Hochmeyer在17岁时身高已近7英尺，在橄榄球队中担任四分卫，且已被普林斯顿大学录取。他前途看起来一片光明，但此时他的父母却被秘密杀害了，大卫不得不离开姐姐凯特，独自漂泊。而此时，世界著名芭蕾舞蹈家希尔菲德，离开了自己在康涅狄格州的豪宅，在全国各地巡演，她逐渐发现身为摇滚明星的丈夫的灾难似乎和大卫一家有关，这种关系似乎还很紧密且出人意料。此后十年，凯特和大卫一直在调查父母的死因，他们追查到了父亲生前的一个公文包，了解了他曾做的一些交易和一些来路不明的财务，而对希尔菲德来说，她的生活和大卫他们的联系到了一起。从普林斯顿大学的橄榄球运动员到四处漂泊的生活，从优雅的舞者到与谋杀案相关得罪人，而在大卫老家的豪华餐厅和这一切是否有关联，这就要等大卫一一解开了。
这部小说中包含着谋杀，复仇，诱惑等元素，时间的串联性很强，人物塑造得也相当丰满，这就会是部相当优秀的作品。(XAT)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 比尔•罗尔巴赫已经著有9本小说和非小说作品，是奥康纳奖和欧•亨利奖得主，他的作品有《树林深处》、《寺庙风云》、以及最新的《巨人间的生活》。他的作品还被刊登在《哈勃》、《大西洋周刊》、《花花公子》、《纽约时代》、《格兰塔》和其他各类杂志和周刊中。《巨人间的生活》获得了亚马逊2012最佳图书奖和缅因文学小说奖。Bill Roorbach is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Flannery O’Connor Prize and O. Henry Prize winner Big Bend; Into Woods; Temple Stream; and most recently, the bestselling Life Among Giants. The 10th anniversary edition of his craft book, Writing Life Stories, is used in writing programs around the world. His work has been published in Harper’s, the Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, New York, and dozens of other magazines and journals. Life Among Giants was an Editor’s Pick for Amazon’s Best 2012, a Shelf Awareness Top Ten Best Fiction for 2012, and a winner of the Maine Literary Award for Fiction.
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