THE PUMPKIN EATER

Book ID/图书代码： 12100013B64537

English Summary/英文概要： The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist’s couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. She is the mother of a vast, swelling brood of children, also nameless, and the wife of a successful screenwriter, Jake Armitage. The Armitages live in the city, but they are building a great glass tower in the country in which to settle down and live happily ever after. But could that dream be nothing more than a sentimental delusion? At the edges of vision the spectral children come and go, while our heroine, alert to the countless gradations of depression and the innumerable forms of betrayal, tries to make sense of it all: doctors, husbands, movie stars, bodies, grocery lists, nursery rhymes, messes, aging parents, memories, dreams, and breakdowns. How to pull it all together? Perhaps you start by falling apart.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《太太的苦闷》是一部超现实的黑色喜剧小说，描写了成年人世界的工作不易和为人父母后的遇到的种种陷阱与诱惑。小说以一个默默无闻的女人为主人公。小说的开头，她坐在心理咨询室的沙发上摇摇欲坠，但后来，她机智，诙谐，坦率，极富情感的话语立刻捕获了读者的注意。我们的女主人公育有一群同样也默默无闻的孩子，但她的丈夫却是成功的编剧，杰克.阿米蒂奇。阿米蒂奇一家人住在城市中，但他们正在乡村建造一座巨大的玻璃塔房，他们原本想在要在乡下定居，幸福快乐地生活下去，但这一切会不会只是一场空想呢？调皮捣蛋的孩子在这个焦躁抑郁的女人面前跑来跑去，她同时还遭受着背叛的煎熬与折磨。医生，丈夫，影星，购物清单，童谣，困境，年迈的父母，记忆，梦境，故障等......该怎么把这一切拼凑在一起？或者说你已经濒临崩溃。（XAT）

Awards/获奖情况：“这是本细致，独特，十分吸引人的小说，深入到了人们现实生活中的种种弱点，下笔毫不留情但又笑料百出。小说很感人，很有趣，有时令人绝望，却又如此鲜活。好好享受这部作品吧。”——伊丽莎白.詹韦，《纽约时代周刊》

“这本小说很独特，也很扣人心弦。《太太的苦闷》中最成功的一点是小说中阐述的事件在现实生活中基本找不到原型，但却道出了普世的真理。作者一层层剥开母爱，婚姻，一夫一妻制等主题的核心，让读者见其本质。”——尼克.霍恩比，代表作《信徒》

About the Author/作者介绍： 佩内洛普•莫蒂默（1918-1999 ）出生在北威尔士的佩内洛普露丝弗莱彻，是家中的小女儿，父亲是圣公会牧师。由于经常搬家，佩内洛普在就读伦敦大学以前在六所学校上过学。1937年，她与记者查尔斯•戴蒙特结婚，婚后育有两个女儿。之后，她又与两个不同的男人生了两个女儿。1949年，佩内洛普与戴蒙特离婚，并与大律师，小说家，剧作家约翰.莫蒂默结合。并育有一双儿女。莫蒂默一家别致的婚姻模式闻名遐迩。但好景不长，这段婚姻于1972年也终结了。《太太的苦闷》（1962年）于1964年被搬上大银幕，由哈罗德.品特编剧，安妮•班克罗夫特和彼得•芬奇主演。佩内洛普还有其他一些发表的作品，如：《爸爸走了》（1958），《长途》（1974）和《杂工》（1983）。她还与丈夫联合写过一本旅游书籍《爱与蜥蜴》，还有《王太后自传》。她还曾是《伦敦观察者》的影评家，还是《纽约客》短篇小说的定期撰稿人。佩内洛普的第一部自传《关于时间》（1979年）被授予惠特布雷德奖，她的第二部自传《也关于时间》于1993年出版。

Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999) was born Penelope Ruth Fletcher in North Wales, the younger of two children of an Anglican clergyman father and his wife. The family moved often, and Penelope was educated at half a dozen institutions before spending a year at the University of London. In 1937 she married the journalist Charles Dimont, with whom she had two daughters. Two more daughters by two different men would follow before, in 1949, she divorced Dimont and married the barrister, novelist, and playwright John Mortimer, with whom she had another daughter and her only son. The Mortimers were celebrated as “the last word in marital chic,” but the marriage was tumultuous and the couple divorced in 1972. In addition to The Pumpkin Eater (1962), made into a 1964 film from a screenplay by Harold Pinter and starring Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch, Mortimer published several other novels, including Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting (1958), Long Distance (1974), and The Handyman (1983); a travel book co-authored with John Mortimer, With Love and Lizards (1957); and a biography of the Queen Mother. She also served as a film critic for the London Observer and was a regular contributor of short stories to The New Yorker. The first volume of her autobiography About Time (1979) was awarded the Whitbread Prize and was followed by About Time Too (1993).

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