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  • 单独通行证
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  • 作者:Ronald De Feo
  • 出版社代理人:Other Press
  • 出版时间:2013年春天出版
  • 页数:160页
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  • 版权联系人:tina@peonyliteraryagency.com
内容介绍
喜欢《第二十二条军规》(Catch 22),《女生向前走》(Girl, Interrupted)以及《飞越杜鹃窝》(One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)等经典小说的读者,绝对不能错过这本《单独通行证》!
 
《单独通行证》是一本黑暗又好笑的小说,关于一位在纽约精神病院被关两个月的男人。他在婚姻破裂以后一直很焦虑,最后导致精神崩溃。他现在处于两个世界:一个是医院的世界,在这里不正常以及一种奇怪的自由统治着;另一个是外面的世界,在那里是以常规以及被限制的行为为主。因为他终于似乎开始“正常”了,他申请并获得“单独通行证”,让他离开医院回到城市里几个小时,只要他保证他会在傍晚的时候回来。
 
故事以第一人称叙述,这是个很有趣的写法,因为读者完全可以进入主角的脑袋,知道他在想什么。在故事的开头,主角已经要求了通行证,明天将会是他重返社会的那一天。他走之前和他的医生以及其他病人聊了天,讨论他第二天的计划,以及他是否记得崩溃那一天发生的事情。但是,他仍然还是不记得。就算他努力想记起来,还是一片模糊的回忆。他回想起他的过去,从他的童年到他结婚的时光。他一一回想起当时他的婚姻如何破裂,以及他渐渐崩溃的状况。他因为越来越病,首先失了工作,接着妻子就离开他了。这本书的一大半发生在他还没走出医院的时间,作者描述了精神病院里的各式各样的人,以及他们的心态。故事的后半段就是他在曼哈顿的时间。短短几个小时,却发生了不少事情。最后的结果也令人出乎意料!
 
关于作者:
Ronald De Feo是Calling Mr. King (Other Press, 2011) 的作者。他为纽约时报书评,The Nation,The New Republic, The National Review以及The Hudson Review写书评。他的短篇在美国许多杂志中刊登,包括The Hudson Review, The Massachusetts Review以及The North American Review。他在ARTnews 杂子担任9年的资深编辑。他目前是Review杂志的咨询委员会的成员,专攻拉丁美洲以及加拿大文艺。
 
Calling Mr. King的书评:
“Whether pretending to be a British aristocrat in New York or unsentimentally confronting his dismal childhood, De Feo’s hit man is extremely liable, and the novel emerges as a study of the delights and dangers of reinvention.” —New Yorker

“Prepare to be unsettled, but take our word: De Feo’s concise voice and compelling characterization make this one worth it.” —Daily Candy

“It’s an engrossing story, persuasively depicting an angry, obsessive man as he comes to a greater awareness of the world around him…De Feo’s master strokes are in creating a remorseless psychopath you'd enjoy spending time with.” —Publishers Weekly
 
“De Feo is definitely a newcomer to watch.” —Kirkus Reviews 

“It’s J.J. Connolly’s Layer Cake (with its anonymous hit man, dreams of retirement dancing in his head) with an icing of Fodor's Barcelona. This quirky, promising debut novel argues that assassins are people, too, and sometimes, like it or not, that means they're aspiring art wonks.” —LibraryJournal.com

Calling Mr. King is an entertaining tale built on what happens when a high-end hit man begins to feel the awakening of an intellectual life. Ronald De Feo invites the reader to play for a while in a seldom-explored part of the borderland between sanity and insanity.” —Thomas Perry, author of The Butcher’s Boy
 
“Ronald De Feo’s Calling Mr. King is the smartest novel I’ve read in years with a hit man in the leading role. His hit man, a very original, quirky hit man, takes us on an amazing side trip of the world’s capitals, the world’s art and architecture, which makes this knowledgeable hit man irresistible.” —Barbara Probst Solomon, US cultural correspondent of El País