THE FALL OF PRINCES: A NOVEL (FRENCH TITLE: LA CHUTE DE PRINCES)
Book ID/图书代码： 00342514B73291
English Summary/英文概要： “When you strike a match, it burns brighter in the first nanosecond than it will ever burn again. That first incandescence. That instantaneous and brilliant flash. The year was 1980, and I was the match, and that was the year I struck into blinding flame.”
New York City. The 1980s. Young men, princes all. Too much money. Too much freedom. They thought it would never end.
In The Fall of Princes, bestselling author Robert Goolrick brings to vivid life a world of excess and self-indulgence, where limousines waited for hours outside Manhattan’s newest trendy club or the latest dining hot spot. Where drugs were bountiful and not refused. Where no price was too high and flesh was always on offer. Where a quick trip to Europe or a weekend on the coast or a fabulous Hamptons beach house were just part of what was expected. When the money just kept coming, and coming, and coming . . . until it didn’t.
Looking back on a Wall Street career that began with great success and ended with a precipitous crash, Rooney tells the story of how he and a group of other young turks made it to the top in the financial world and then, one by one, took a fall. For some, it was tragic; for others, it was the simple but bruising act of yielding to a life of mediocrity. For Rooney, however, it became a lifelong struggle to maintain a sense of dignity and to cling to the illusion of the life he once led.
Stunning in its acute observations about great wealth and its absence, and deeply moving in its depiction of the ways in which these young men learn to cope with both extremes, The Fall of Princes takes readers on a journey that is both starkly revealing and dazzlingly entertaining, a true tour de force.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “划亮火柴的最初那一刻才燃烧得最旺。那最初的炙热，那一瞬间的闪光。那是1980年，我就是那根火柴，那年我开始熊熊燃烧。”
纽约，1980年，王子般的年轻人，太多钱，太多自由，他们以为这一切都永无止境。
本书中，畅销书作家Robert Goolrick将一个挥霍无度的世界栩栩如生地呈现在读者面前，在那里，豪华汽车总是在曼哈顿最潮流的酒吧或最新的热门餐厅门口等候数小时之久；各种毒品都来者不拒；美女如云，出价没有上限；一时兴趣去欧洲或海边度假也是家常便饭；钱会源源不断地进账……直到不再来为止。
主人公Rooney公回顾了一段以成功开始以崩溃告终的华尔街职业生涯，讲述了他和其他年轻精英登上金融世界巅峰又一个一个跌落的经历。对某些人来说，这是个悲剧；对另一些人来说，这只是一个最终屈服于普通生活的过程。但对Rooney主人公回顾了一段以成功开始以崩溃告终的华尔街职业生涯，讲述了他和其他年轻精英登上金融世界巅峰又一个一个跌落的经历。对某些人来说，这是个悲剧；对另一些人来说，这只是一个最终屈服于普通生活的过程。但对Rooney来说，这变成了维持自尊并坚持曾经拥有过的生活幻象的一辈子的挣扎。
小说对拥有并失去巨大的财富进行了细致入微的观察和描写，对这些年轻人处理两极状态的各种方式的描绘感人至深，带领读者踏上了一段迷幻而发人深省的阅读之旅。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“一部令人读来上瘾的半自传体小说……Goolrick似乎在驱除他过去的恶魔，生动地记录了命运和悔恨的最深处，非常具有可读性，记录并审视了大城市生活的起起落落。”——《出版人周刊》
“一部引人入胜的叙事性小说……作者散文般优美的文笔为这个忏悔故事注入了深度和绝望的意味，就像是文字版的《华尔街之狼》。”——Booklist
“Goolrick是一位非常出色的作家……他的近作既是一部小说，也是一部自传，拥有前者的艺术性，也拥有后者的真实性……和马丁•斯科塞斯的《华尔街之狼》有异曲同工之妙……作者聚焦于失去和救赎，并展现了我们再次成为普通人类的各种微小的方式。”——《科克斯书评》
“[A]n addictive slice of semiautobiographical fiction . . . As if exorcising the demons of his past, Goolrick vividly plums the depths of fortune and regret. The result is a compulsively readable examination of the highs and lows of life in the big city.”—Publishers Weekly
“[A] compelling, wholly seductive narrative voice . . . Goolrick’s stellar prose infuses this redemption story with a good deal of depth and despair, making it read like the literary version of The Wolf of Wall Street.” —Booklist
“Goolrick is a superb writer . . . He’s referred to his latest as both novel and autobiography; it carries both the artistic qualities of the former and the emotional truth of the latter . . . ranging from the tragicomic beats of Jay McInerney or Bret Easton Ellis to the repulsive behaviors in films like Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street . . . Goolrick is focused on the idea of loss and redemption, and shows the small ways by which we become human again.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A heart--wrenching, beautiful, darkly comic, deeply necessary tale that stuns again and again with razor-sharp prose and glittering wit. Robert Goolrick is, without question, one of the greatest storytellers of our time.” —Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife
“The Fall of Princes is a dark, intoxicating morality tale of a bygone generation, a world of excess and decadence and the price paid by some--but by no means all--of those who partook in the bacchanal. Robert Goolrick deftly peels back the layers of the high life of high finance and, with his impeccable prose, focuses his unflinching eye on the grittiness beneath the sleek facade of nightclubs, fashion, and monied Manhattan extravagance. Beautifully crafted, seductive and provocative in tone, Goolrick’s novel is a powerful read: honest, true, and deeply affecting.” —Garth Stein, author of A Sudden Light and The Art of Racing in the Rain
About the Author/作者介绍： ROBERT GOOLRICK，除了《可靠的妻子》，还著有知名回忆录《我们知道的世界尽头》。他住在弗吉尼亚的一个小镇上。ROBERT GOOLRICK In addition to A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick is the author of the acclaimed memoir The End of the World as We Know It. He lives in a small Virginia town.
Format:GALLEY
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