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Book ID/图书代码： 04B08880
English Summary/英文概要： In each section of Michael Cunningham’s new book, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story which takes place at the height of the Industrial Revolution, as human beings confront the alienated realities of the new machine age. "The Children’s Crusade," set in the early twenties century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band which is detonating bombs seemingly at random around the city. The third part, "Like Beauty," evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet to be contacted by the people of earth.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本万众期待的小说《标本岁月》是迈克尔-坎宁安继《时时刻刻》后的又一巨作，故事由三篇相关联的幻想叙述性故事构成的，以纽约市为背景的。书中的每一部分都会出现同样一群人物：一位年轻的男孩，一位上了年纪的老人，一位年轻妇女。“机器时代”讲得是发生在工业革命颠峰的一个鬼故事，当时人类面临着新机械时代引发的人与人之间的隔膜。“儿童十字军” 的背景是二十一世纪初叶， 作品跟踪、尾随了一伙到处引爆炸弹的恐怖集团，他们的目标看似随机，好好地戏弄了一番黑色惊悚故事的传统手法。第三个故事“像美人”则把我们带到了150年后的纽约，那时的纽约几乎挤满了等待着与地球人联络逃难者，他们都是来自第一颗有人居住的行星上。而贯穿整个篇章的则是预言家Walt Whitman诗人。 《岁日拾集》有着不同凡响的力度和美感，久久萦绕在读者的脑海中，堪称该流派中的经典之作，它歌颂了美国最伟大的城市，也反思了美国的未来命运的走向和意义。它的作者是当今文坛最有原创力、最敢于尝试的作家之一Michael Cunningham，他最畅销小说《时时刻刻》赢得了普利策奖，也被改编成了电影，后获了奥斯卡奖。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World (Picador) and Flesh and Blood. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories, and he is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours which was a New York Times Bestseller, and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly. He is a Professor at Brooklyn College for the M.F.A program.
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