THE SUNNIER SIDE AND OTHER STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 02330013B59987
English Summary/英文概要： A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend.
A selection of Jackson’s finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Set in the town of Arcadia in upstate New York, the stories in this collection address the unspoken issues—homosexuality, masturbation, alcoholism, to name a few—lurking just beneath the surface of the small-town ideal.
The Sunnier Side showcases Jackson at the height of his storytelling powers, reaffirming his reputation as a boundary-pushing, irreverent writer years ahead of his time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 揭示美國小鎮生活黑暗面的小說錦集，作者查理斯 傑克遜因《迷失的週末》而一炮走紅。
這些小說集揭示了20世紀早期動盪年代裡青年人的生活。故事大多以紐約北部郊區阿卡迪亞小城為背景，討論了一些眾人關心又無人敢提的話題，包括同性戀、自慰、酗酒等，顯露出小鎮背後的故事。
本書體現出傑克遜高超的寫作技巧，再次奠定了他最樂於打破世俗、勇於自由表達的作者地位。（Celia）
Awards/获奖情况：“Charles Jackson is a writer of unusual power.”
—Chicago Tribune
“In their compassionate but merciless self-examination, their almost unbearable integrity, their penetrating (unarty) artfulness, [Jackson’s stories] force the reader back upon himself, make him reflect upon his own motivations, his own worth.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Jackson is a writer of lasting inventiveness and power.”
—Saturday Review
“It is not possible to squeeze Mr. Jackson’s technique into any one school. First and foremost he is a creator of his own world. In his best stories he catches the tune of all our existence and hums it for us with the casual colloquially relaxed precision characteristic of his style.”
—New York Herald Tribune Book Review
About the Author/作者介绍： 查理斯 傑克遜1903年出生，在紐約邊城阿凱迪亞長大，這也成為了他小說的背景。青少年時期因結核病和酗酒而痛苦不堪。他的首本小說The Lost Weekend (1944)為他贏得了名家稱號。後來此書由Billy Wilder 和 Charles Brackett改編成經典電影。後來九年傑克遜還出版了兩本小說和兩部短篇故事集，同時還在與酒精和藥癮做鬥爭。1967年，沉寂了15年之後，他又以一部講述女色情狂的小說A Second-Hand Life（《二手生活》）成為暢銷小說家。後一年他便在曼哈頓的切爾西酒店去世。
Charles Jackson was born in 1903 and raised in the township of Arcadia, New York, in the Finger Lakes region, where much of his fiction is set. After a youth marred by tuberculosis and alcoholism, Jackson achieved international fame with his first novel, The Lost Weekend (1944), which was adapted into a classic movie by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. Over the next nine years, Jackson published two more novels and two story collections, while continuing to struggle with alcohol and drug addiction. In 1967, after a fourteen-year silence, he returned to the best-seller lists with a novel about a nymphomaniac, A Second-Hand Life, but the following year he died of an overdose at the Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan.
Blake Bailey is the author of Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson. His other books include A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Cheever: A Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and finalist for the Pulitzer and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He edited a two-volume edition of Cheever’s work for The Library of America, and in 2010 received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.
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