VERNON DOWNS
Book ID/图书代码： 02000014B69020
English Summary/英文概要： Charlie Martens is desperate for stability in an otherwise peripatetic life. An explosion that killed his parents when he was young robbed him of normalcy and he was shuttled from relative to relative, left alone to decipher the world he encountered in order to cobble together an answer as to how he would live. Ever the outcast, Charlie recognizes in Olivia, an international student from London, the sense of otherness he feels and their relationship seems to promise salvation. But when Olivia abandons him, his desperate mind fixates on her favorite writer, Vernon Downs, who becomes an emblem for reunion with Olivia. Charlie’s quest takes him from Phoenix to New York City and when chance brings him into proximity to Vernon Downs, he quickly ingratiates himself into Downs’s world. Proximity invites certain temptations, though, and it isn’t long before Charlie moves dangerously from fandom to apprentice to outright possession.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 居无定所的查理•玛顿斯极度渴望拥有稳定的生活。儿时的一场爆炸案夺取了父母的生命，同时也带走了他正常的生活，他被辗转于亲戚们之间，他孤独地解读着他所面对的世界，努力拼凑着如何生活下去的答案。一直以来都是被抛弃者的查理认识了一名来自伦敦的国际学生奥利维亚，他感到两人之间一种别样的情愫，而两人间的关系更是仿若救赎。然而随着奥利维亚也抛弃了查理，他开始绝望地专注于奥利维亚最爱的作家弗农•唐斯，仿佛唐斯象征着他与奥利维亚的复合。查理的探寻之旅从凤凰城来到纽约，机缘巧合他得以亲近弗农•唐斯本人，并且很快地，他便快速地融入了唐斯的世界。熟话说，日久生情，很快查理便危险地从狂热迷恋变为了学徒，直至彻底掌握。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：‘动人又犀利，一切都把握的恰到好处。对家庭的爱和缺乏家庭之爱正是这部精彩至极小说的精髓之处。’ – 嘉瑞•斯泰加特，作家，著有《极度悲伤的真实恋爱故事》（Super Sad True Love Story）
‘Moving and edgy in just the right way. Love (or lack of) and Family (or lack of) is at the heart of this wonderfully obsessive novel.’ – Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
About the Author/作者介绍： 杰米•克拉克是亚利桑那大学的一名研究生，并拥有贝林顿学院美术硕士学位。他著有小说《如此出名的我们》，并曾编撰了数部选集。他成立并参与编辑了文学杂志Post Road，现由波士顿学院出版发行，他还与妻子共同拥有一家位于波士顿的独立书店：Newtonville Books。
Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the previous novel We’re So Famous and has edited various anthologies. He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Post Road, now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.
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