平凡的噩梦 Banal Nightmare:A Novel

基本信息

Titel:Banal Nightmare

Untertitel:A Novel

Autor:Halle Butler

EAN:9780593733837

ISBN:978-0-593-73383-7

Format:Kartonierter Einband

Herausgeber:Random House N.Y.

Genre:Romane & Erzählungen

Veröffentlichung:16.07.2024

Anzahl Seiten:336

Jahr:2024

Untertitel:Englisch

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书籍简介

玛格丽特·安妮·“莫迪”·扬斯刚刚回到她在中西部小镇 X 的故乡，与年轻时的朋友们交往，重新找回自己的根源，并从城市生活的十年压力中恢复过来。 在一间小公寓里，她和一个男人在一起，她现在认为他是一个狂妄自大的人，或者可能是一个隐蔽的自恋者。

哈莉·巴特勒（Halle Butler）的残酷而搞笑的《平庸的噩梦》就这样开始了，莫迪突然结束了她的长期关系，搬回了家乡，把自己交给了老朋友们，因为他们都突然步入中年，离开了。 参加聚会，互相打量，沉迷于过去的轻视，梦想疯狂的胜利，沉迷于精心设计的复仇幻想。 当她的朋友帕姆邀请一位神秘的东海岸艺术家到当地大学进行冬季驻留时，莫迪别无选择，只能面对过去的恶魔，并应对生活的现实。 随着清算日的临近，朋友将成为敌人，敌人将成为死敌，昔日的忠诚将受到大限度的考验。

《平庸的噩梦》充满了复杂的角色，他们的渲染会让你眼花缭乱，同时他们的决定也会激怒你。 哈莉·巴特勒（Halle Butler）独特地捕捉到了现代时代不稳定、愤怒、委屈、超现实和完全迷失方向的氛围。

Margaret Anne “Moddie” Yance had just returned to her native land in the Midwestern town of X, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in touch with her roots, and to recover from a stressful decade of living in the city in a small apartment with a man she now believed to be a megalomaniac or perhaps a covert narcissist.

So begins Halle Butler’s sadistically and hilarious Banal Nightmare, which follows Moddie as she abruptly ends her long-term relationship and moves back to her hometown, throwing herself at the mercy of her old friends as they, all suddenly tipping toward middle age, go to parties, size each other up, obsess over past slights, dream of wild triumphs, and indulge in elaborate revenge fantasies. When her friend Pam invites a mysterious East Coast artist to take up a winter residency at the local university, Moddie has no choice but to confront the demons of her past and grapple with the reality of what her life has become. As the day of reckoning approaches, friends will become enemies, enemies will become mortal enemies, and old loyalties will be tested to their extreme.

Banal Nightmare is filled with complicated characters who will dazzle you in their rendering just as often as they will infuriate you with their decisions. Halle Butler singularly captures the volatile, angry, aggrieved, surreal, and entirely disorienting atmosphere of the modern era.

作者简介

哈莉·巴特勒的初部小说《吉莉安》被《芝加哥论坛报》称为“年度感觉糟糕的书”。 她的第二部小说《新我》被 Vox 评为十年优质图书，并被《名利场》、《Vulture》、《芝加哥论坛报》、Mashable、Bustle 和 NPR 评为年度优质图书，《纽约客》称其为“年度优质图书”。 千禧年文学的专业著作。” 她被评为格兰塔优质美国青年小说家之一和国家图书基金会 5 岁以下 35 岁获奖者。

Halle Butler’s first novel, Jillian, was called the “feel-bad book of the year” by the Chicago Tribune. Her second novel, The New Me, was named a Best Book of the Decade by Vox and a Best Book of the Year by Vanity Fair, Vulture, the Chicago Tribune, Mashable, Bustle, and NPR, and the New Yorker called it a “definitive work of millennial literature.” She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree.