绝望之举（《时代周刊》年度书籍，迪伦托马斯奖提名）Acts of DesperationMegan Nolan

基本信息

Format:Paperback 288 pages

Publisher:Little, Brown and Company

Imprint:Back Bay Books

ISBN:9780316429832

Published:27 Sep 2022

Weight:259g

Dimensions:140 x 210 (mm)

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

一段与众不同的爱情故事。卡尔·奥韦·克瑙斯高

热得像内脏。《新共和》

一部关于爱情成瘾及其对人影响的辛辣反爱情小说（凯瑟琳·莱西）。

难道我会不竭尽全力去挽回我的损失，挽回他的离去吗？

在这部令人震撼、直击心灵的小说中，我们的无名叙述者遇到了一位魅力非凡的作家，名叫凯兰。尽管她明知不妥，还是完全被他吸引。在一段短暂却全身心投入的恋情之后，他突然拒绝了她，这让她陷入了嫉妒、痴迷和渴望的漩涡之中。

如果他有一天回到她身边，她决心不惜一切代价留住他和他对她的爱，哪怕这会毁了她自己。

《绝望之举》既是一部令人喘不过气来的自白，也是一份清晰的批判，它刻画了一种意识的分裂，这种分裂存在于反抗与屈从之间，存在于逃避堕落与将其色情化之间，存在于爱与被爱之间。诺兰以令人不安的、敏锐的精准度剖析了生命中难以捉摸的奥秘之一：我们为何想要我们所想要的，又为何以那样的方式想要？

《绝望之举》的问世宣告了一位令人瞩目的新文学才子的诞生，这部作品对幻想、欲望和权力的本质进行了探究，促使我们诚实地面对自身的贪得无厌。

A love story like no other.Karl Ove Knausgaard

Hot as viscera. The New Republic

A blistering anti-romance (Catherine Lacey) about love addiction and what it does to us.

Wouldn't I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him?

In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing.

If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her

Part breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life's most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it?

Heralding the arrival of a stunning new literary talent, Acts of Desperation interrogates the nature of fantasy, desire, and power, challenging us to reckon honestly with our own insatiability.

作者简介

梅根·诺兰出生于爱尔兰沃特福德，现居伦敦。她的散文、小说和评论发表于《纽约时报》、《白色评论》、《新政治家》、《星期日泰晤士报》、《乡村之声》、《卫报》以及文学选集《冬季论文》。《绝望之举》是她的小说。

Megan Nolan was born in Waterford, Ireland and lives in London. Her essays, fiction and reviews published in the New York Times, the White Review, the New Statesman, the Sunday Times, the Village Voice, the Guardian, and in the literary anthology Winter Papers. Acts of Desperation is her first novel.