FUNNY ONCE: STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 04940014B68216
English Summary/英文概要： Michael Chabon once said, “I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson’s name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again.” And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her stories are clear-eyed, hard-edged, beautifully formed. In the title story, “Funny Once,” a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In “The Village,” a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasingly about her teenage son’s relationship with a bad-news girlfriend. In the novella “Three Wishes,” siblings muddle through in the aftermath of their elder brother’s too-early departure from the world.
The landscape of this book is the wide open spaces of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Throughout, there is the pervasive desire to drink to forget, to have sex with the wrong people, to hit the road and figure out later where to stop for the night. These characters are aging, regretting actions both taken and not, inhabiting their extended adolescences as best they can. And in Funny Once, their flawed humanity is made beautiful, perfectly observed by one of America’s best short story writers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 迈克尔•査邦曾说过，“我会一眼扫过杂志的目录页，寻找安东尼娅•尼尔森的名字，满心期盼着她决定再一次给我们带来美好。”如今她再一次为我们带来福音，那些让我们深爱她的故事是她给我们的馈赠。她的故事总是思路清明、精辟犀利，并且文风优美。在标题之作《曾经有趣》这个故事中，一对因为坏习惯而走到一起的情侣因为他们更负责任的朋友们而陷入谎言。在《村庄》这个故事中，一个女人去养老院探望自己的父亲，回忆起青少年时期面对自己不当言行父亲的镇定，她对父亲过去的草率行为也有了新的认识。在另一个故事中，当一名问题少女在邻里走失，一名母亲越发担心起青春期的儿子和他不幸女友的关系。在一则中篇故事《三个愿望》中，面对长兄的早逝，兄妹们艰难地走过这段伤痛的余波。
这本书中的故事发生背景十分广阔：从堪萨斯州、德克萨斯州、新墨西哥州到科罗拉多州。总而言之，全篇都充斥着各种渴望，用买醉去遗忘，和错误的人发生关系，去流浪，以及随后弄清夜晚该于何处停歇。故事中这些人物都在慢慢老去，在懊悔曾经做过以及未能去做的事情，竭尽所能地去享用延续了的青春。更重要的是，在《曾经有趣》中，他们不完美的人性也变得美好，而这一切都是出自美国最棒的短篇小说作家之一的完美旁观。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：“安东尼娅•尼尔森对词汇的准确把握令人喟叹... ... 她巧妙地将驱动人们去作出毁灭性选择举动的恐惧和幻想表达了出来，每一个微小的瞬间都仿佛成为一种启示... ...探究我们最糟糕的冲动与更好的自己之间的那场角逐... ...”——O, the Oprah magazine
“这个有关于混乱现代生活的巧妙寓言故事中鲜活地充斥着真相和灵思... ... 尼尔森在刻画犀利的人物角色和写下令人炫目的流畅文风上天赋斐然。” —People, on Bound
"Antonya Nelson wields words with breathtaking precision . . . Turning tiny moments into revelations, she brilliantly exposes the fears and delusions that drive people to rationalize destructive choices . . . [A] wise exploration of the war between our worst impulses and our better selves." —O, the Oprah magazine
"This deft tale of messy, modern family life crackles with truth and originality . . . Nelson has a gift for sharply etched characters and dazzling lyrical prose." —People, on Bound
About the Author/作者介绍： 安东尼娅•尼尔森是九部小说作品的作者，包括Female Trouble 和 Nothing Right这两部选集，以及Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, 和Bound这几部小说。她的作品曾刊载在《纽约客》、《时尚先生》及《哈珀斯》等杂志上。作者曾荣获 Guggenheim Fellowship奖金, NEA荣誉奖，以及最近的Rea短篇小说奖。尼尔森现居住在新墨西哥州、科罗拉多州及德克萨斯州等地，并于休斯顿大学有创意写作课程教职。
Antonya Nelson is the author of nine books of fiction, including the collections Female Trouble and Nothing Right, and the novels Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Bound. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, and many other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA grant, and, recently, the Rea Award for Short Fiction. Nelson lives in New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, where she holds the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
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