JAWBONE LAKE
Book ID/图书代码： 00200013B65092
English Summary/英文概要： The early hours of New Year’s Day. A young woman stands on the shore of a frozen lake and watches a Land Rover crash off a bridge and through the ice. Two hundred miles away, a young man is woken by a devastating telephone call. The accident, and what it brings to the surface, will change both of their lives forever. The driver of the Land Rover was CJ Arms, a successful local businessman and pillar of the small Peak District town of Ravenstor. The young man is his son, Joe, who returns from London to comfort his mother and to search for clues as to the causes of the crash. What he finds will take him from the desolate tors of the Peaks to the foothills of southern Spain, and to a group of ex-pats from CJ’s past with many secrets to hide. The woman on the lakeshore is Rabbit, a factory-worker struggling to recover from the sudden death of her son. Pursued by an unknown figure, Rabbit is spun from a cycle of grief and longing into one of fear. Seeking shelter at work, Rabbit finds that she can’t hide for long. What Rabbit saw that night will draw her, and Joe, towards a shocking act of violence. Jawbone Lake is both a heartstopping literary thriller, and a moving meditation on family, generational divide and the dangers of living a double life. Alive with the lyrical evocation of landscape that is Robinson’s forte, it is an astonishing new work of fiction from one of our finest writers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在新年到来的前几个小时里，一名年轻的女性伫立在一个结冰的湖边，她目睹了一辆路虎从桥上翻落到湖中，穿透冰面，坠落。200英里以外，一名年轻的男子被一阵急促的电话惊醒。这场意外的事故与它的余波将同时改变这两个人今后的生活。路虎的驾驶员是一名名为CJ埃姆斯的男子，他是当地一名成功的商人，同时也是山区小镇瑞文斯托的中流砥柱。年轻的男子名为乔，是他的儿子，他从伦敦回到这里，安慰照料母亲，同时寻找造成了这场事故的点滴线索。然而他的发现将让他从荒无人烟的山区来到西班牙南部的山脚之下，在那里，他将遇到CJ曾经的伙伴们以及他们所掩藏的诸多秘密。湖畔的女人名为瑞比特，身为工厂女工的她正奋力从丧子的伤痛中恢复。瑞比特总感到一个莫名的影响追逐着她，一股悲伤之气萦绕着她，伴随之的还有一股满溢着畏惧的渴望。瑞比特想从工作中寻找庇护，却发现自己完全无法将真实的情感隐藏。那一夜，瑞比特的亲眼所见将让她自己与乔两个人从此不断接近另一个令人震惊不已的暴行。《颚湖》是一部令人心碎不已的故事，也是一部恐怖惊悚小说，一次对于家庭、代购以及过着双重人生的深刻思考。书中对于那些动人美景的描绘无疑是罗宾逊的特长之一，本书无疑是一部来自于优秀作家的精彩之作。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：雷•罗宾逊的上一部小说《电》于2007年时由 Picador出版发行，并收到了广泛好评：
’莉莉是一名十分犀利的叙述者，整本书的文风都十分强势，相信作者今后的作品将更加值得期待’ -- 《观察家》
’罗宾逊对于两名人物的刻画显得精致而谨慎，既充满着自信之气，同时亦不乏精妙之处。’ -- 《哈罗德报》
’既硬汉又温柔，莉莉是一名叫人又惧又爱的鲜活人物创造。’ -- 《星期日独立报》
Ray Robinson’s previous novel, ELECTRICITY, was published by Picador in 2007 and received the following praise:
’Lily is a sharp narrator, the writing is strong and there could be even better to come’ -- Observer
’Robinson’s delicate tiptoeing between the two personae is confident and exquisite’ -- Herald
’very tough and very tender, and Lily is a fearsome and compellingly alive creation.’ -- Independent on Sunday
About the Author/作者介绍： 雷•罗宾逊1971年出生在北约克郡。在历经多年的绘图训练后，他在东欧和斯堪的纳维亚地区从事了多年的教书活动。其获奖故事已在诸多文学刊物上发表，目前著有两部小说作品《一无所有的男人》和《电》。后者曾获詹姆斯•泰特•布莱克回忆奖提名和作家俱乐部最佳处女作作品提名。作者是一名兰卡斯特大学的研究生，后于2006年被授予创造性写作博士学位，他还是文学咨询会的一名文学导师。作者现居曼彻斯特。RAY ROBINSON was born in North Yorkshire in 1971. After training as a graphic designer he spent many years teaching in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. His prize-winning stories are widely published in literary journals and he is the author of two novels, The Man Without and Electricity, which was nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. He is a post-graduate of Lancaster University where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Creative Writing in 2006 and is a Literary Mentor for The Literary Consultancy. He lives in Manchester.
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