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The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

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內容簡介 一本神話般、推進力十足的小說，講述一個位於緬因州的母系犯罪家族錯綜複雜的命運。你的祖先依附著你而存活。有時，他們會為復仇而召喚你！「文學驚悚小說中再也找不到比The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne更出色的作品了。它讓深刻與恐怖達到了完美的平衡。」—普立茲獎得主Richard RussoBabs Dionne是一位不可一世的法裔美國人、溺愛的祖母、兇殘犯罪家族的女頭目，以鐵腕統治著她位於緬因州Waterville的小鎮。她與她的忠誠部下、從青少年時期一同開疆闢土的女伴們，以及她的長女Lori（退伍海軍陸戰隊員，正在與毒癮作鬥爭）一起，掌控著向「小加拿大」地區流入的毒品。當一名毒品大亨發現自己在美國東北部的生意下滑時，他派出了一號神秘的人物——The Man——前往調查。與此同時，Babs的最小女兒Sis失踪了，而這事似乎不太尋常。在接下來的二十四小時內，Sis會被證實已死亡多時，而整個Waterville小鎮注定躲不過Babs Dionne無端喪女的熊烈怒火。 The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne是一部與眾不同的犯罪家族史詩。獲獎作家Ron Currie以鋒利的智慧和深刻的同情心創作出一部難以忘懷的小說，探討了愛、報應以及既滋養又束縛著我們的祖輩。“Literary thrillers just don’t come any better than Ron Currie’s The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. It’s profoundly serious and terrifying in equal measure.” –Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Somebody's FoolA mythic, propulsive novel about the tangled fates of a matriarchal crime family in Maine.Your ancestors breathe through you. Sometimes, they call for vengeance.Babs Dionne, proud Franco-American, doting grandmother, and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town of Waterville, Maine, with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into Little Canada with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a Marine vet struggling with addiction.When a drug kingpin discovers that his numbers are down in the upper northeast, he sends a malevolent force, known only as The Man, to investigate. At the same time, Babs's youngest daughter, Sis, has gone missing, which doesn't seem at all like a coincidence. In twenty-four hours, Sis will be found dead, and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs’s wrath.The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne is a crime saga like no other, with a ferocious matriarch at its bruised, beating heart. With sharp wit and profound empathy, award-winning author Ron Currie, delivers an unforgettable novel exploring love, retribution, and the ancestral roots that both nurture and trap us.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Ron CurrieRon Currie is the author of four novels. He has won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program.

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