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Brutes

內容簡介

內容簡介 In Falls Landing, Florida - a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers - something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they uncover will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate captures the violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the 'we' of young friendship, and the moment it is broken forever.

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各界推薦 An impressive [read], thanks to Tate's almost frightening powers of description. It has been a long time since I read a novel that so viscerally evoked a feeling of place... it's the America of Nabokov's Lolita on acid... With its plot twists, grotesque horror and cartoonish villains, Brutes is a novel that refuses to be reasonable. That's part of its unsettling charm... An astonishing debut that will burrow under your skin. ― Sunday Times[A] magic realist, warped Florid a fairy tale, a Lynchian reinterpretation of The Virgin Suicides... Tate acutely captures the precariousness of girlhood, its growing pains and what it is to be "born out of rage". ― ObserverA brooding look at girlhood like you've never encountered before. ― Evening StandardThe literary debut of the season. ― VoguePolyphonically technicolour and lushly textured, Brutes is a defiant elegy to the myth of girlhood innocence. Dizz Tate's talent is brazen - and brilliant. -- Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water CureThe mystery and the danger of being a girl, of feeling crazy and vulnerable and wild, wanting to run away and be someone-anyone-is captured here across a landscape of nail polish and fire and sex, a sinister lake and the pink sky of Florida. Brutes is a beautiful and deeply strange novel, full of dread and longing. I loved it. -- Mariana Enríquez, author of Things We Lost in the FireWhere [Tate's] prose shines is in its descriptions of the ragged, hollowed-out landscape of its west coast. ― The Times

作者介紹

作者介紹 Dizz Tate was born in 1993 in London and grew up in Orlando, Florida. Her short stories have appeared in Granta, The Stinging Fly, Dazed, Five Dials and No Tokens Journal, amongst others. She won the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2018. For her story 'Harpies', she won Best Original Fiction in the Stack magazine awards in 2019, and in 2020, she was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award.

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最佳賣點 : 驚駭、憂傷又真實地令人顫抖‧英國新生代小說家Dizzie Tate出道作