HE WANTS
Book ID/图书代码： 08136014B72568
English Summary/英文概要： Retired teacher Lewis Sullivan always imagined living by the sea.
He lives instead in the Midlands village in which he was born. His grown-up daughter visits every day, bringing soup. He does not want soup. He frequents his second-favourite pub, where he can get half a shandy, a speciality sausage and a bit of company.
When a childhood friend appears on the scene, Lewis finds his life and comfortable routine shaken up.
In Moore’s inimitable, haunting style, this seemingly simple but in fact multi-layered narrative unfolds with compelling assurance. Moving between memories of childhood and Lewis’s current life of cosy habit, plot twists thicken and weave with stealthily increasing tension. Always unexpected, sparely written and beautifully crafted, He Wants deftly dissects the themes of loneliness, anxiety, the weight of recollection and the complex nature of friendship and family ties. A surprising, lingering and intensely moving tale from one of our most exciting novelists.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 退休教师路易斯•沙利文心心念念想要靠海而居。
他反而在出生地英格兰中部地区。他已经成人的女儿每天都带这他不想要喝的汤水来家中看他。他时不时地光顾自己还比较喜欢的酒吧，在那里好歹可以有人陪着喝点小酒。
当幼时的朋友出现在眼前，路易斯发现自己原有的生活模式开始动摇了… (Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：The stunning second novel from the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Lighthouse.
A haunting and accomplished novel. (Katy Guest The Independent on Sunday)
It is this accumulation of the quotidian, in prose as tight as Magnus Mills’s, which lends Moore’s book its standout nature, and brings the novel to its ambiguous, thrilling end. (Philip Womack The Telegraph)
Alison Moore’s writing is exquisite, the prose simple and powerful, but it’s the use of imagery which really marks it out as something special. (Sue Magee The Bookbag)
Moore’s writing has a superb sense of the weight of memory. (Kate Saunders The Times)
The Lighthouse is a spare, slim novel that explores grief and loss, the patterns in the way we are hurt and hurt others, and the childlike helplessness we feel as we suffer rejection and abandonment. It explores the central question about leaving and being left: even when it feels inevitable, why does it hurt so much, and why is this particular kind of numbness so repellent to others? The brutal ending continues to shock after several re-readings. (Jenn Ashworth The Guardian)
The Lighthouse looks simple but isn’t, refusing to unscramble what seems a bleak moral about the hazards of reproduction, in the widest sense. Small wonder that it stood up to the crash-testing of a prize jury’s reading and rereading. One of the year’s 12 best novels? I can believe it. (Anthony Cummins The Observer)
The Lighthouse, Alison Moore’s melancholic debut, would eventually have found admiring readers through the great network of word of mouth. That it has been shortlisted, deservedly, for the Man Booker Prize will quicken the process. This is a beautiful short novel sustained by muted urgency, nuance and the exactness with which Moore conveys the paralysing levels of depression that Futh battles. In order to deal with the present he attempts to make sense of his past, which refuses to fade away. His thoughts throb with humiliating episodes from his boyhood, cut short when his bored, dissatisfied mother left, leaving his father to voice his anger at his only audience, the bewildered boy. (Eileen Battersby The Irish Times)
A debut novel from a high-achieving independent publisher, The Lighthouse has surprised some observers with its place on the Man Booker Prize shortlist. Disquieting, deceptive, crafted with a sly and measured expertise, Alison Moore’s story could certainly deliver a masterclass in slow-burn storytelling to those splashier literary celebs who take more pains over a pyrotechnic paragraph than a watertight plot. (Boyd Tonkin The Independent)
Melancholy and haunting. The sense of loneliness and discomfort and rejection is compelling, the low key prose carefully handled. It’s a serious novel with a distinctive and unsettling atmosphere. (Margaret Drabble)
He Wants review: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/31/he-wants-review-alison-moore-rachel-cusk
Alison Moore interview: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alison-moore-interview-heres-to-that-tricky-secondfamily-album-9642692.html
About the Author/作者介绍： 艾莉森•摩尔1971年生于曼彻斯特，目前与丈夫丹和儿子亚瑟住在诺丁汉附近的乡村。她是诺丁汉作家工作室的成员，还是诺丁汉大学英语学院的荣誉讲师。
Alison Moore is a novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, The Lighthouse, won the McKitterick Prize 2013 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the National Book Awards 2012 (New Writer of the Year). Her second novel, He Wants, will be published on 15 August 2014. Her short stories have been published in Best British Short Stories anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. The title story of her debut collection, The Pre-War House and Other Stories, won a novella prize and the collection was shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award 2014. She is published by Salt. Born in Manchester in 1971, she lives in a village on the Leicestershire-Nottinghamshire border. She is an honorary lecturer in the School of English at Nottingham University. www.alison-moore.com
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