THE LAST ANIMAL

Book ID/图书代码： 03371013B61354

English Summary/英文概要： The Last Animal by Abby Geni is that rare literary find — a remarkable series of stories unified around one theme: people who use the interface between the human and the natural world to contend with their modern challenges in love, loss, and family life. These are vibrant, weighty stories that herald the arrival of a young writer of surprising feeling and depth.

“Terror Birds” tracks the dissolution of a marriage set against an ostrich farm in the sweltering Arizona desert; “Dharma at the Gate” features the tempest of young love as a teenaged girl must choose between man’s best friend, her damaged boyfriend, and a beckoning future; “Captivity” follows an octopus handler at an aquarium still haunted by the disappearance of her brother years ago; “The Girls of Apache Bryn Mawr” details a Greek chorus of Jewish girls at a summer camp whose favorite counselor goes missing under suspicious circumstances; “In the Spirit Room” centers on a scientist suffering the heartbreaking loss of a parent from Alzheimer’s while living in the natural history museum where they both worked; in “Fire Blight” a father grieving over his wife’s recent miscarriage finds an outlet for comfort in their backyard garden and makes a surprising discovery on how to cherish living things; and in the title story, a retired woman traces the steps of the husband who left her thirty years ago, burning the letters he had sent along the way, while the luminous and exotic wildlife of the Pacific Ocean opens up to receive her.

Unflinching, exciting, ambitious and yet heartfelt, The Last Animal will guide readers through a menagerie of settings and landscapes as it underscores the connection among all living things.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 艾比．杰尼《最后的动物》是罕见的文学发现——一个了不起的围绕着统一主题的系列故事:人与自然世界交流来与现代爱情、失去和家庭生活作抗争。这些充满活力的、严肃的故事,预示着一位拥有令人惊讶感觉和深度的年轻作家的到来。

“恐怖鸟”跟踪婚姻解散反对闷热的亚利桑那沙漠鸵鸟农场故事; “佛法在大门口”描述年轻的爱情风暴，一个十几岁的女孩必须伤害她的男朋友，选择他最好的朋友,一个令人心动的未来;“圈养”追随一个水族馆的章鱼管理者仍然被她多年前失踪的弟弟困扰,“叫阿帕奇．布林．莫尔的女孩”讲述希腊合唱团犹太女孩最喜爱的夏令营辅导员可疑地失踪的故事;“精神空间”围绕着一位科学家在他们工作的自然历史博物馆中心碎的失去患阿尔茨海默氏症的一个亲人的中心;在“热萎病”中，丈夫痛失妻子流产后，在后花园找到安慰，惊人地发现如何珍惜生命;在标题故事中,一位退休的老太太追随离开她30年的丈夫的脚步,一路上燃烧了他曾经写给她的信,而发光和珍奇的太平洋野生动物接收了她。

不畏缩的,令人兴奋的,雄心勃勃的,也衷心的,《最后的动物》通过各种各样的设置和风景将引导读者认识到所有生物之间的联系。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：这里是一些早期的赞美——吉姆．加文,其处女收集作《中间人》是2013年最著名的首次亮相，还有Dan Chaon 和 Emma Straub的评论:

”结合相当酷的一位心生叙事的自然学家、艾比．杰尼编录惊人的一组人物,他们的生活都被神秘的离开和失踪的亲人破坏。不是解决这些谜团,她将我们深入推进到他们,结果,就像这本书里的许多生物,奇怪,令人难以忘怀并且美丽。”吉姆．加文,《中间人》

“我已经认识一段时间,艾比．杰尼是一位才华横溢的作家,我很高兴最终世界会发现他。这些都是锋利的,深刻的,深思的,完全原创的故事,我倾心推荐这本书!”Dan Chaon、国家图书奖获得者，《保持清醒》和《等待着你的答复》的作者

“艾比．杰尼是一名神枪手,野生动物驯服人,有洞察力的奇迹。《最后的动物》是一本非常雄心勃勃的文集，向世界宣布杰尼的许多才能。我喜欢这本书,你也会。”Emma Straub

“当人们让你失望,自然世界可能能够给你安慰,我从这本迷人的新收集的短篇故事中猜测的。无论是阿尔茨海默氏症,抑郁症,事务,或不明原因,艾比．杰尼家庭成员的角色仍然消失。甚至是代理人,像一个心爱的营队辅导员,也不能依靠。但幸运的是有替代关系,无论是青少年学生的“佛法在大门口”,或者年轻的非常清楚章鱼智力的水族馆工人的“圈养”。一个博物馆工作者转向失去母亲的悲痛,而另一个人在妻子流产后转向他的客户的工厂困境。即使在故事中我也不为所吸引,杰尼的作品充满了独特的图像和情景。在我最喜欢的故事中,她的人物和意象是惊心动魄的。”——丹尼尔•戈尔丁,威斯康星州密尔沃基市鲍斯威尔图书公司

About the Author/作者介绍： 艾比是爱荷华作家工作室一个研究生，爱荷华州奖学金的接受者。“囚禁”赢得微光列车开发小说第一名，被列为2010年美国最佳短篇小说著名故事;它也被纳入中西部《新故事》中,俄亥俄州大学出版社出版“佛法在大门口”最近发表在《微光列车》。“绿化”已经发表在《对峙》上，“恐怖鸟”出版在《印第安纳审查》。“沉默”赢得肖陶扩村比赛第一名，并被那本文学期刊发表。“热萎病”将刊登在第四道河，“叫阿帕奇．布林．莫尔的女孩”刚刚出版。她的故事也收到Kate Baverman短篇小说奖荣誉奖，在微光列车的非常短的小说中占有竞争地位。

Abby is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the recipient of an Iowa Fellowship. “Captivity” won first place in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open and was listed as a Notable Story in 2010 Best American Short Stories; it was also selected for inclusion in New Stories from the Midwest, published by Ohio University Press. “Dharma at the Gate” has recently been published in Glimmer Train. “Landscaping” has been published in Confrontation and “Terror Birds” has been published by the Indiana Review. “Silence” won first place in the Chautauqua Contest and was published by that literary journal. “Fire Blight” will be published by Fourth River and “The Girls of Apache Bryn Mawr” has just been published by Camera Obscura. Her stories have also received Honorable Mentions in the Kate Baverman Short Story Prize and in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Competition.

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