BARBARIANS
Book ID/图书代码： 03540012B57583
English Summary/英文概要： Bonfire of the Vanities for contemporary London.
Meet the Howes, a wealthy Islington family who class themselves amoung the great and the good of Britain’s liberal elite.
Sherard Howe owns a literary magazine while his wife, Daphne, is the most celebrated feminist of the New Labour era. Their biological son, Henry, has a degree from Oxford and a puppyish devotion for his friend Elizabeth “Buzzy” Price, which is sadly unreciprocated. Throwing Henry’s lack of ambition in stark relief is the Howes’ adopted daughter, Afua: beautiful, brilliant and ruthlessly determined to climb her way to the top.
Brilliantly (and at times painfully) observed, Glencross’s debut is a fresh, contemporary novel about love, art and politics told with a 19th century sensibility.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书描绘了当代伦敦社会空虚与浮华的气焰。
本书跟踪描述了豪斯一家，豪斯是一个富裕的伊斯灵顿家族，一直以来他们都标榜自己，自称为英国文学界的上流精英。
谢拉德•豪斯经营有一本文学杂志，他的妻子达芙妮则是新时代最著名的女权主义运动者。而他们的儿子亨利则拥有牛津大学文凭，尽管他还小狗般的对自己的朋友--“吵闹的”伊丽莎白•普莱斯有着某种迷恋，虽然很不幸的是这份单恋毫无回报。豪斯家的养女阿法是一名兼具美丽与智慧，同时一心想要爬上社会顶端的女子，因而对于亨利这种毫无野心的生活作风与完全释怀的心态，她进行了严厉的打击。
本书为格林克洛斯的处女作，全书视角独特而不乏睿智（虽然有时候让人微感刺痛），却不失为一部有关于爱，艺术和政治的当代小说，全书以一种19世纪的情感方式娓娓道来，读来叫人耳目一新。(DC)
Awards/获奖情况：版权艺术： 英国：Fourth Estate Limited(2014, 编辑：马克•理查德，300页）
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UK & Comm: Fourth Estate Limited(2014, Ed. Mark Richards, 300 pages)
“A dazzling debut.” – The Times
“Hurrah for the novel as entertainment…sincere and well-put-together: it’s an enjoyably old-fashioned novel that grasps something real about the way we live now.” - Guardian
“It’s refreshing . . . Glencross is an astute, immaculately funny writer with a strong ear for the present moment. Elegantly witty sentences flow from his pen like wine from a bottle. He is particularly good at skewering the often gaping chasm between people’s public and private selves.” - Claire Allfree, Metro
“Tim Glencross has set his sights high in this debut. Replete with references to Middlemarch, Can You Forgive Her? and other all-embracing novels of Victorian society, Barbarians aims to take the temperature of the times, using a group of Oxbridge graduates clustered around Labour’s Islington set as its gauge. Along the way there are references to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, namechecks for Melvyn Bragg and Ian McEwan, visits to Brixton, a Soho club and a north London luvvie party, off-the-page reports from Private Eye and the Daily Telegraph, and a walk-on part for Tony Blair . . . Far from being mere ciphers, Afua and her friends are given sufficient spark to make them live on the page . . . The satire, meanwhile, is subtle enough to be compelling, and the references glancing enough not to grate . . . An engaging and often impressive debut . . .
Glencross feels like a writer to watch” - Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
“Entertaining, with a rich array of snobs and halfwits.” - Independent
“This is a clever, amusing and well written debut novel by someone who has great fun at the expense of the so-called elite classes.” - Daily Mail
“Glencross’s first novel is a lively and easy read.” – Observer
About the Author/作者介绍： 提姆•格林克洛斯，生于1980年，曾与剑桥大学攻读现代语言，后作为影子大臣的幕后撰稿人。2005年作者离开英国议会，并获取了律师资格。作者现居伦敦。 Tim Glencross was born in 1980. He studied modern languages at Cambridge, before going to work as a Shadow Minister’s speechwriter. In 2005 he left Parliament to qualify as a lawyer.
He lives in London.
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