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Brawler: Stories

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內容簡介 一本令人驚豔、充滿力量的短篇故事集，來自一位短篇故事大師和我們這個時代最重要的作家之一。Lauren Groff 這部充滿活力的故事集，單獨閱讀時，每個故事都是一次獨立的勝利，大膽、靈動且充滿力量。合在一起閱讀時，它們發出令人振奮的共鳴。這九個故事的時間跨度從 1950 年代到現在，橫跨年齡、階級和地區——從新英格蘭到佛羅里達再到加州——它們反映並擴展了一個共同的主題：人類黑暗與光明天使之間永無休止的戰鬥。一個角色告訴我們：「在每個人類身上，都有一隻動物和一個神祇在搏鬥，直到死亡。」在我們看到陷入這場較量中的人包括：一個突然需要對她殘疾手足負責的年輕女子、一個脾氣火爆需要成年人指導的高中游泳運動員、一位因失去家人而失明的母親，以及一位被賦予不同類型遺產的銀行世家後代。他們被愛所激勵，卻被他人良好意圖的兩面性所阻礙，他們盡其所能地努力做正確的事。《鬥士》（Brawler）精確、令人驚訝、發人深省，並以對人性的深刻洞察為基礎，揭示了愛與恐懼、同情與暴力、理性與本能、利他主義與生存所需之間的反覆、有時令人心碎的轉捩點。A stunning, fierce collection from a master of the short story and one of the most important writers of our timeRead alone, each story in Lauren Groff’s electric collection is an individual triumph, bold, agile, and packed with power. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region -- from New England to Florida to California -- these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans’ dark and light angels.“In every human there is both an animal and a god wrestling unto death,“ one character tells us. Among those we see caught in this match are a young woman suddenly responsible for her disabled sibling, a hot-tempered high school swimmer in need of an adult, a mother blinded by the loss of her family, and a banking scion endowed with a different kind of inheritance. Motivated by love, impeded by the double edges of other peoples’ good intentions, they try to do the right thing for as long as they can.Precise, surprising, and provocative, anchored by profound insight into human nature, Brawler reveals the repeated, sometimes heartbreaking turning points between love and fear, compassion and violence, reason and instinct, altruism and what it takes to survive.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Lauren GroffLauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won the Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2024 she was named one of the "TIME 100 most influential people." Groff ’s work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, where she and her husband run an independent bookstore, The Lynx.

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