THE WHISKEY BARON
Book ID/图书代码： 07633014B68641
English Summary/英文概要： 1932: Late one night at the end of a scorching summer, a phone call rouses Sheriff Furman Chambers out of bed. Two men have been shot dead on Highway 9 in front of the Hillside Inn, a one-time boardinghouse that is now just a front for Larthan Tull’s liquor business. When Sheriff Chambers arrives to investigate, witnesses say a man named Mary Jane Hopewell walked into the tavern, dragged two of Tull’s runners into the street, and laid them out with a shotgun.
Sheriff Chambers’s investigation leads him into the Bell village, where Mary Jane’s family lives a quiet, hardscrabble life of working in the cotton mill. While the weary sheriff digs into the mystery and confronts the county’s underground liquor operation, the whiskey baron himself is looking for vengeance. Mary Jane has gotten in the way of his business, and you don’t do that to Larthan Tull and get away with it.
Hailed as a “grand new talent” (Bret Lott) and a “significant new voice in Southern fiction” (Ron Rash), Jon Sealy has written a haunting debut novel. With its unforgettable characters and evocative setting, The Whiskey Baron is a gripping drama about family ties and bad choices, about the folly of power and the limitations of the law.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1932： 在一个燥热难耐的夏日午夜，一通电话唤醒了睡梦中的福曼•钱伯斯探长。在山边酒馆的正门前，两名男子在海威大街九号中枪而亡，这个曾经的寄宿公寓如今已成为拉森•塔尔的酒水生意的招牌门面。当探长钱伯斯前来调查取证时，有目击者称曾看见玛丽•简•霍普维尔走进这家小酒馆，并将塔尔酒馆的两名经营者拖出到了街上，并将两人击倒。
钱伯斯探长的调查引导着他来到了贝尔山村，玛丽•简的家人们在村庄里的棉花磨坊里过着安静而窘迫的生活。而当疲惫的探长深入探查到了这背后的神秘之处并亲临村庄的地下酒水运作，他发现似乎威士忌大亨自己也寻找着复仇的契机。玛丽•简似乎阻碍了他前进的道路，更何况谁也不可能在影响了拉森•塔尔之后还能轻易走开。
自创作了其精彩的首部小说处女作后，乔•西里被认为是“新起之秀”（布雷特•洛特）以及“南方文学小说史上一个意义非凡的新声音”（荣•拉什）。一边是令人印象深刻的人物角色，一边是令人振奋的情节设置，《威士忌大亨》堪称是一部有关于家庭纽带和错误选择，有关于愚昧之权利以及法律的局限的精彩戏剧故事。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况："乔•西里的这部《威士忌大亨》堪称是一部坚毅并且极为精巧的小说作品，从小说开头的第一段起，便深深地吸引着我，就仿佛当酒保最后一次告知闭店时，醉汉的心情，别无去处，唯有回家，这样精彩小说作品的结束真是让人不爽至极。"----唐纳德•雷•波洛克，作家，著有《永远的恶魔》（The Devil All the Time）
“《威士忌大亨》读来就好似考马克•麦卡锡和威廉•福克纳联手打造了HBO电视台的系列节目《大西洋帝国》，却又尤其好似一场充满灵感启发与极具存在感的狂欢纵饮。”---The Richmond Times-Dispatch
“小说《威士忌大亨》所带来的不仅是神秘小说和文学虚构小说的乐趣。乔•西里从未向他笔下的人物们屈尊俯就-----相反的，他们轻易推翻偏见，并因其错综复杂的性格而愈加具有吸引力。这部令人印象尤为深刻的处女作小说作品奠定了乔•西里作为南方文学重要新生力量的重大地位。”---荣•拉什，作家，著有Serena and The Cove
“毫无疑问的文学悬疑作品。。。。。。西里笔下那些刻画精妙的人物形象，以及其极具共鸣感的时间感和地理方位感更是使得该部小说作品即便读完也令人记忆犹新，可以说丝毫不逊色于丹尼尔•伍德雷尔和荣•拉什的精彩佳作。”----《图书馆周刊》
“一部氛围感十足的顶尖处女作小说作品。。。。。。西里迄今为止最令人印象深刻的黑色乡村小说作品，这部作品遵循了该类书目顶尖作家如丹尼尔•伍德雷尔以及唐纳德•雷•波洛克等的传统，可谓是新生代作家中一个强有力的声音。”----《出版家周刊》
"Jon Sealy’s gritty, superbly crafted novel, The Whiskey Baron, hooked me from the opening paragraph, and much like a drunk feels when the bartender signals last call and there’s nowhere left to go but home, I hated like hell for it to end." —Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time
“The Whiskey Baron reads a little like what you’d get if Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner co-wrote the HBO series ’Boardwalk Empire’ while on an especially inspired, existentially tinged bender."—The Richmond Times-Dispatch
"The Whiskey Baron is a novel that offers the pleasures of both mystery novel and literary fiction. Jon Sealy never condescends to his characters—they subvert easy stereotypes and are all the more compelling because of their complexity. This impressive debut establishes Jon Sealy as a significant new voice in Southern fiction."—Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Cove
"An assured work of literary suspense ... Sealy’s finely drawn characters and evocative sense of place and time make this a memorable read, on par with the best of Daniel Woodrell and Ron Rash."—Library Journal
"(An) atmospheric and top-of-the-line debut novel ... Sealy’s impressive country noir, which follows in the tradition of such leading practitioners as Daniel Woodrell and Donald Ray Pollock, serves notice of a promising new voice."—Publishers Weekly
About the Author/作者介绍： 乔•西里刚刚和科比•吉姆在William Morris Endeavor机构签下了第二部小说作品的版权。
乔•西里的故事曾在诸多文学类刊物上出版发行，其中包括The South Carolina Review, The Sun, The Normal School, 以及PANK。很快乔就即将成为名人啦！
Jon Sealy has just been signed by Kirby Kim at William Morris Endeavor for his second novel.
Jon Sealy’s stories have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines, including The South Carolina Review, The Sun, The Normal School, and PANK. Jon is going to be a star!
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