GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
Book ID/图书代码： 12844014B68730
English Summary/英文概要： Jess Frobisher is a botany professor at the local university. Her husband, Liam, works for a space tourism company called Spaceco, which has just become front-page news: one of their shuttles exploded shortly after liftoff, killing everyone on board. The press descends. With the future of the company in doubt, a husband-and-wife filmmaking team approaches Liam about making a Spaceco documentary. Seeing this as an opportunity to salvage the company’s reputation, Liam agrees to cooperate, allowing them access to his homelife and his family. And Jess soon becomes a focus of their film, even as—or perhaps because—she is excluded from her husband’s darkest secrets. GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT unfolds with sure pacing, mounting anxiety, and glimmering writing, through a series of e-mails from Jess to her colleague Arthur, away on sabbatical. He is a safe correspondent, removed from the maelstrom, but their relationship is freighted by some secrets of its own—the details slowly revealing themselves in this debut of masterful storytelling.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 杰斯•弗罗比舍是当地大学的植物学教授，她的丈夫亚姆则为一家太空旅游公司工作，但这家公司最近登上了报纸头条：近期的一艘太空船发射不久后就发生了爆炸，船上的游客无人生还，太空旅游的未来堪忧。就在这时，一对夫妻电影制作团队来造访亚姆，表示想要为太空旅游拍摄一个纪录片。亚姆觉得这样有可能挽回公司的声誉，同意合作，这对夫妻就这样进入了亚姆的家庭生活。杰斯很快变成了拍摄的主题，但她并不是亚姆不可告人的秘密的一部分。
《上帝是个宇航员》的情节随着杰斯和同事亚瑟之间的电邮展开。亚瑟是个记者，正在休假，他并没有被卷进这场阴谋中，但他和杰斯的秘密关系也随着故事的展开慢慢浮现，紧凑的小说节奏，渐渐增加的不安感，若隐若现的铺垫无不展现了作者非凡的写作技巧。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：“艾莉森•福斯特的这部处女作涉及了植物学，航空学，家庭，友谊和爱情。书中女主角杰斯•弗罗比舍耐人寻味的内心独白经过作者细腻的描写下，似乎变成了杰斯与读者有所共鸣的对话。”——克里斯汀娜•吉福，《无线潮汐》作者
“《上帝是个宇航员》的出现非常顺应时代背景：对宇宙的未知，即时沟通的困难和可能，对科技进步矛盾的态度。但这部小说的主题却是放在哪个时代都能获得共鸣——贪婪，悔恨，带来悲剧的傲慢，拯救一切的爱情，这些都是我们人性的一部分。艾莉森•福斯特是个非常大胆的作家，我非常敬佩她强烈写作的观点和意愿。”——莉迪亚•内策尔，畅销书《阳光，阳光，阳光》和《如何在夜空中寻找托莱多》作者
“《上帝是个宇航员》非常吸引人，情节铺垫得非常巧妙。邮件是推进小说进程的重要线索，我们在期间不断地能发现惊喜。”——卡伦•E•本德尔，《满是空房间的小镇》和《像平常人一样》作者
’Alyson Foster’s debut novel is a puzzle book told in the language of botany, astronomy, family, friendship, and love. A remarkable and haunting monologue-in-pieces handled with such mastery that Jess Frobisher’s one-sided correspondence ultimately becomes an unbroken dialogue with the reader.’- Christian Kiefer, author of The Infinite Tides
’God is an Astronaut is a novel of this very moment: the uncertainty of our place in the universe, the difficulty and opportunity of instant communication, our oscillation between fighting with and falling in love with technology. But it is also a novel of every moment -- lust, regret, tragic arrogance, redeeming love -- these have always been part of our humanity. Alyson Foster is a brave writer, one I admire greatly for the intensity of her vision and her willingness to step into telling the difficult story of right now.’- Lydia Netzer, bestselling author of Shine, Shine, Shine and How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky
’God is an Astronaut is a captivating, ingeniously plotted book that explores the unknowability of others in a wholly new way. Through the novel’s emails, the characters are revealed with wonderful complexity, and surprise us again and again.’ - Karen E. Bender, author of A Town of Empty Rooms and Like Normal People
About the Author/作者介绍： 艾莉森•福斯特出生于密苏里州，圣路易斯，在密歇根州长大。她毕业于密歇根大学创意写作专业，后又获得了乔治•梅森大学美术硕士学位，并成为了该大学的研究员。艾莉森现与丈夫和他们的狗住在华盛顿。Alyson Foster was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. She studied creative writing at the University of Michigan and received a M.F.A. from George Mason University, where she was a Completion Fellow. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband and a canine that sheds like an old rug.
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