亡者之果 Rachel Lyon 英文原版 Fruit of the Dead

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 320 pages

Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd

Imprint:Simon & Schuster Ltd

Edition:Export/Airside

ISBN:9781398529946

Published:28 Mar 2024

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是一部对珀耳塞福涅和得墨忒耳神话的当代重新演绎，以一个夏天在一座郁郁葱葱的私人岛屿上为背景，探索谁掌握着现代社会的权力。

营地辅导员科里·安塞尔 (Cory Ansel) 十八岁，漫无目的，害怕面对她在纽约高度紧张的单身母亲，当她的一位营员的父亲提出另一种选择时，她不再确定家在哪里。

财富 500 强制药公司的执行官罗洛·皮卡佐 (Rolo Picazo) 是一位中年人，离过婚，很有魅力。 他也被科里陶醉了。 当罗洛提供一份托儿工作（以及一份保密协议）时，科里平息了内心的警告，并允许自己乘坐渡轮前往他位于缅因州海岸的私人岛屿。 饱受高奢品和他公司生产的制剂的困扰，她继续告诉自己她是主宰者。 她的母亲埃默尔是一家摇摇欲坠的农业非政府组织的负责人，但她却有不同的看法。 当她的女儿似乎失踪时，埃默穿越陆地和海洋去聆听呼救声，只有她确信自己听到了呼救声。

《死亡之果》在两位女性的视角之间交替，将其神话灵感与轻盈的触感和毁灭性的准确融为一体。 结果是一个丰富而令人难忘的故事，探讨了爱、吸引力、控制、抹杀和美国自己的晚期资本主义神话。

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, exploring who holds the power in a modern underworld.

Camp counsellor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. 

The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island off the coast of Maine. Plied with luxury and preparation manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she’s in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. When her daughter seemingly disappears, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.

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 lush and haunting story that explores love, attraction, control, obliteration and America’s own late capitalist mythos. 

作者简介

雷切尔·里昂（Rachel Lyon）是《死者的果实》和《男孩的自画像》的作者，入围小说中心初届小说奖的决赛。 作为 Epiphany 的名誉编辑，她曾在萨克特街作家工作室、本宁顿学院和其他机构教授创意写作。 雷切尔是纽约布鲁克林人，与丈夫和两个年幼的孩子住在马萨诸塞州西部。

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. An editor emerita for Epiphany, she has taught creative writing at the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, Bennington College, and other institutions. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Rachel lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and two young children.