THE BEND OF THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 02330014B73537
English Summary/英文概要： "A comedy of bad manners, darting wisecracks, deadpan chagrin, and drug-hazed pratfalls" (James Wolcott), The Bend of the World is a madcap coming-of-age novel in which no one quite comes of age and everything you know is not a lie, it’s just, well, tangential to the truth.
In the most audacious literary debut to come out of the Steel City since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, we meet Peter Morrison, twenty-nine and comfortably adrift in a state of not-quite-adulthood, less concerned about the general direction of his life than with his suspicion that all his closest relationships are the products of inertia. He and his girlfriend float along in the same general direction, while his parents are acting funny, though his rich, hypochondriac grandmother is still good for admission to the better parties. He spends his days clocking into Global Solutions (a firm whose purpose remains unnervingly ambiguous) and his weekends listening to the half-imagined rants of his childhood best friend, Johnny. An addict and conspiracy theorist, Johnny believes Pittsburgh is a "nexus of intense magical convergence" and is playing host to a cabal of dubious politicians, evil corporate schemes, ancient occult rites, and otherwise inexplicable phenomena, such as the fact that people really do keep seeing UFOs hovering over the city.
Against this strange background, Peter meets Mark and Helen, a slightly older couple, new to town, whose wealth and glamour never fully conceal the suggestion of something sinister, and with whom he becomes quickly infatuated. Mark is a corporate lawyer in the process of negotiating a buyout of Global Solutions, and initiates Peter into the real, mundane (maybe) conspiracies of corporations and careers, while Helen—a beautiful and once prominent artist—is both the echo and the promise of the sort of woman Peter always imagined, or was always told he ought to find for himself.
As Peter climbs the corporate ladder, Johnny is pulled into the orbit of a mysterious local author, Winston Pringle, whose lunatic book of conspiracies seems to be coming true. As Johnny falls farther down the rabbit hole, the surreal begins to seep into the mundane, and the settled rhythm of Peter’s routine is disrupted by a series of close encounters of third, fourth, and fifth kinds. By the time Peter sets out to save his friend from Pringle’s evil machinations (and pharmacological interventions), his familiar life threatens to transform into that most terrifying possibility: a surprise.
In The Bend of the World Philip K. Dick meets Michael Chabon, and Jacob Bacharach creates an appropriately hilarious, bizarre, and keenly observed portrait of life on the edge of thirty in the adolescent years of twenty-first-century America.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “一出关于失态、罗嗦的俏皮话、恼人的呆板、磕了药后犯迷糊的喜剧”（詹姆斯•沃尔科特），本书是一部简单直接的描述地成人小说，没有哪个人物确确实实像个成年人的样，你看的到一切并非谎言——只不过——离事实有点远而已。
自《匹兹堡之谜》之后，来自于钢铁城市的最大胆的文学闪亮登场。来见识一下29岁的仍徜徉在的不太算是一个成年人应有的状态中的彼得•莫里森。他很少关注自己生活的大方向，而是始终在怀疑着我们最亲密的关系都是惰性产物。他和女朋友都游荡在同样的目标上；同时他的父母都表现的非常有趣——尽管很富有；忧郁症的祖母仍然受高档聚会的欢迎。他每天到“全球方案”打卡上班（该公司的目的令人不安地含混不清），周末就听听他童年伙伴强尼的半臆想的怨天尤人。强尼沉溺于阴谋论当中，他坚信匹兹堡是“一个密集集合的节点”，并且一直在见一些秘密可疑的政客，研究一些怪异的合作计划、远古神秘仪式和无解的现象，比如人们不停地能在这座城市上空见到飘荡的不明飞行物。
在这种古怪的背景下，彼得认识了马克和海伦，一对刚搬来的中年夫妇，他们的财富和魅力掩盖不住一丝丝阴险的暗示，因为他们，彼得很快便魔怔了。马克是企业律师，正在进行收购全球方案的谈判，他诱导彼得进入了看似真实其实俗套的阴谋中——拥有企业和事业。海伦，一个美丽、曾经很有前途的艺术家，也夫唱妇随，一边不断给彼得许诺着他那些梦中情人，一边又说他应该自己去追求。
正当彼得要升迁的时候，强尼却把他推入了一个当地作家的地盘里，威斯顿•普林格，他的阴谋论调又极不着调的书看起来还像那么回事。就在强尼在“兔子洞”（注：通往另一个迥异世界的入口）越陷越深时，他们的生活发生了超自然的事，彼得稳定的生活节奏被第三类、第四类、第五类接触所打乱。这时的彼得不得不去从普林格邪恶的阴谋中拯救自己的磕了药的朋友，他中规中矩的生活演变成了最可怕的那种：惊掉下巴！
这本书混合了菲利普•K•迪克和迈克尔•卡邦的风格，作者雅各布•巴哈拉赫的创作有趣、迥异，巧妙地捕捉到了21世纪临近而立之年的年轻美国人的形象。（LNL）
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