PARADISE

Book ID/图书代码： 02000004B09051

English Summary/英文概要： Hannah Luckraft knows the taste of paradise. It’s hidden in the peace of open country, it’s sweet on her lover’s skin, it flavours every drink she’s ever taken, but it never seems to stay. Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, even Hannah is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her and it may be that her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are frankly odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was. Robert, a dissolute dentist, appears to offer a love she can understand, but he may only be one more symptom of the problem she must cure. From the north-east of Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest and onwards, Hannah travels beyond her limits, beyond herself, in search of the ultimate altered state: the one where she can be happy - her paradise. Incapable of writing a dull sentence, or failing to balance the grim with the hilarious, the tender with the shocking, A.L. Kennedy has written an emotional and visceral tour-de-force. A compelling examination of failure that is also a comic triumph, a novel of dark extremes that is full of the most ravishing lyrical beauty, Pa

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Hannah Luckraft靠著賣硬紙箱過活，家人也因為她的各種不良嗜好而拒絕來往，無所事事已是她的生活態度，對她來說，最美妙的事情就是在酒瓶中找到生活樂趣。當有一天Hannah終於找到她的真命天子Robert，兩個都是嗜酒如命的傢伙，這一對怨偶佳人，會激盪出什麼火花?
---A. L. Kennedy擅長在可悲可嘆的人生事實裡找到美好的事物，她告訴讀者一個糟糕的人，也有完美的一面。---

Awards/获奖情况：版權已售: 5國(加拿大/德國/法國/希臘/丹麥)

About the Author/作者介绍： A. L. Kennedy蘇格蘭作家，她榮獲2007柯斯達COSTA文學獎，也曾經獲得ENCORE PRIZE、JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE、SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD等獎項。她擔任過布克獎、《衛報》首作獎、柑橘文學獎的評審。A. L. Kennedy已出版12本著作，也曾經撰寫電影劇本，她是當代重要女性作家。
A. L. Kennedy has published three previous novels, two books of non-fiction, and three collections of stories, most recently Indelible Acts in 2002. She lives in Glasgow.

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