Fruit of the Dead

Fruit of the Dead

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2025/02/03
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重塑希臘神話中波瑟芬與狄蜜特的故事,探討成癮與性、家庭、獨立以及現代黑暗世界中的權力爭奪。

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《Fruit of the Dead》重塑希臘神話波瑟芬(Persephone)與狄蜜特(Demeter)的神話。故事發生在一個鬱鬱蔥蔥的私人小島上,探討成癮與性、家庭、獨立以及現代黑暗世界中的權力爭奪。

18歲、沒有人生目標的營地輔導員柯莉·安塞爾(Cory Ansel)害怕面對她那緊張兮兮的單親母親的失望,連帶失了去家的歸屬感,此時,一名營員的父親給了她一個選擇。洛羅·皮卡佐(Rolo Picazo),一位製藥公司CEO,富有、離婚且相當有魅力,他也對柯莉著迷。當洛羅提供她一份工作時,柯莉壓抑內心的警告,決定接受,並被送往他的私人小島。奢華的生活和他的公司生產的鴉片滋養下,她告訴自己,她掌控著這一切。然而,她的母親艾梅(Emer),一個經營岌岌可危的非政府農業組織的負責人,卻感到情況並非如此。當她的女兒似乎消失後,艾梅跨越陸地與海洋,聆聽她唯一能聽見的求救聲。

本書女兒與母親兩位女性的視角中交替進行,《Fruit of the Dead》以輕盈的筆觸巧妙地將神話靈感與毀滅性的精確度結合在一起。最終,這是一個探索愛、控制、摧毀以及美國後資本主義神話的故事。Lyon對波瑟芬與狄蜜特故事的重塑,構成了一部令人難忘的、充滿電力的小說,讀者將久久無法忘懷。

Named a Best Book of the Year by Oprah Daily

Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother’s disappointment, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is wealthy, divorced, and magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo offers her a job, Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and the opiates manufactured by his company, she tells herself she’s in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help that only she can hear.

Alternating between the two women’s perspectives, Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and America’s late-capitalist mythos. Lyon’s reinvention of Persephone and Demeter’s story makes for a haunting, electric novel that readers will not soon forget.

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作者介紹

Rachel Lyon
Rachel Lyon is the author of Fruit of the Dead and Self-Portrait with Boy, a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her short stories have appeared in One Story, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and other publications. A teacher of creative writing at various institutions, most recently Bennington College, Rachel lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and two young children.

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"Alternating between the perspective of mother and daughter, we can indulge in the full thrill of being young, reckless, and newly independent—and the full propulsive terror of being older and knowing better. Though Lyon pulls the bones of the story from ancient mythology, the book’s characters are intensely—at times achingly—human and its plot is urgently contemporary." —Oprah Daily

"In lush, hallucinatory prose, Lyon narrates from the perspectives of both mother and daughter and evokes the classic myth without distracting readers from the striking contemporary setting and subject matter." —Booklist, Starred Review

"Irresistible... brilliantly told... an affecting, engrossing, and resonant tale about lost innocence and the enduring bond between a mother and daughter.” —Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review

"Lyon’s skillful and luscious prose encourages empathy... an affecting novel with touches of the fantastical, weaving explorations of power, youth, wealth, and familial love." —Kirkus, Starred Review

規格

誠品貨碼 / 2682837746009
ISBN13 / 9781668020869
ISBN10 /
EAN貨碼 / 9781668020869
頁數 / 336
裝訂 / P:平裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 21.3 X 14 X 2.3 CM
級別 / N:無
提供維修 / 無

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