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Lazy City

內容簡介

內容簡介 Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides a partial refuge from her grief and her volatile relationship with her mother. She spends late nights at the bar where her old friend Declan works, and there Erin meets an American academic who is also looking to get lost. Her unlikely, secretive relationship with religion offers a different kind of sanctuary altogether.Lazy City explores coming of age in a place where everyone is picking up the pieces and belongs to a generation that, at the precipice of climate crisis, isn't going to get the future it was expecting. A startlingly fresh and original voice - jarringly funny, sometimes cranky, often hungover - Rachel Connolly sharply depicts the strange, meandering aftermath that follows disaster.

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各界推薦 "Here is a debut to savour, a brilliant and vivid new voice to guide us through the calamities of the contemporary" -- KEVIN BARRY"It's also a novel about trauma and its aftermath: again, a common theme today, but done sophisticatedly here, with a quality of thinking rare in a debut . . . Connolly gives Erin a dry, wry voice, and one that's frequently very funny . . . Lazy City exhibits an understanding of the importance of our homeland as the container that shapes us . . . I felt better after reading this book. Connolly is a writer in whom I have faith" -- JOHN SELF ― Daily Telegraph"Somehow both tightly controlled and highly spontaneous, Rachel Connolly's Lazy City is refreshingly open to the world. Frank, attentive, free of artifice or emotional contrivances, Connolly brings something new to any subject she shines her singular intelligence on" -- NICOLE FLATTERY"A compelling exploration of grief, uncertainty and disappointment, and a convincing portrait of Belfast's normalisation, such as it is. Indeed, where a Troubles novel might have foregrounded trauma, Connolly focuses instead on the impact of more ordinary, but still devastating, loss" ― Irish Independent"Absolutely LOVED IT. A coming of age novel set in Belfast and delivered in the most beautifully clear and engaging prose" -- FRANKIE BOYLE"A skilful, expressive and subtly subversive debut" ― Irish Times

作者介紹

作者介紹 Rachel ConnollyRachel Connolly was born in 1993 in Belfast and now lives in London. She has written for the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Guardian and many other publications. She has also featured as a guest to discuss her work on This American Life and several BBC radio programs.

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最佳賣點 : 愛爾蘭新生代作家Rachel Connolly書寫北愛爾蘭的浮世百態，剖析失能的愛、碎裂的關係與失去