场地管理 Groundskeeping 英文原版 Lee Cole 处女作作品 国际流行小说

基本信息

Format Paperback | 448 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 26mm | 368g

Publication date 05 Jan 2023

Publisher Faber & Faber

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Main

ISBN10 0571371086

ISBN13 9780571371082

书籍信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在经历了二十岁出头的麻烦之后，欧文渴望洗心革面，他回到肯塔基州，在阿巴拉契亚山麓的一所小学院担任地面管理员的工作，这让他可以报名参加他们的写作课程。

就在那里，他遇到了驻校作家阿尔玛，她似乎拥有欧文所没有的一切--一个有声望的职位、常春藤联盟的教育和作为作家的成功发表。他们开始了一段秘密的关系，随着他们的关系越来越密切，来自一个支持性的、自由的波斯尼亚移民家庭的阿尔玛，努力理解欧文与他自己的家庭和家园之间充满矛盾的关系。

探讨生活和艺术之间的界限，以及我们的成长经历如何影响我们能够成为什么样的人，《场地管理》在本质上是一个爱情故事--一部关于两个非常不同的人在全身心投入的关系的动荡中航行的小说，以及可能毁掉它的复杂情况。

Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their writing course.

It's there that he meets Alma, a Writer-in-Residence, who seems to have everything Owen doesn't - a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, and published success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma, from a supportive, liberal family of Bosnian immigrants, struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with his own family and home.

Exploring the boundaries between life and art, and how our upbringings affect the people we can become, Groundskeeping is at heart a love story - a novel about two very different people navigating the turbulence of an all-consuming relationship, and the complications which can ruin it.

作者简介

李-科尔在肯塔基州农村出生和长大。他近期毕业于爱荷华州的作家工作室，现在住在纽约。他的处女作《场地管理》是《今日秀》#ReadWithJenna图书俱乐部的选题。

Lee Cole was born and grew up in rural Kentucky. A recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he now lives in New York. His debut, Groundskeeping was a Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick.