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The smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her own weed-ridden family cemetery outside Manhattan. Determined to see that justice is served to the perpetrators, Madeline finds herself examining her own troubled personal history, and the sometimes hidden, sometimes all-too-public class and racial warfare that penetrates every level of society in the savage streets of New York City during the early 1990s. She is aided in her efforts by a colorful assemblage of friends, relatives and new acquaintances, each one representing a separate strand of the patchwork mosaic city politicians like to brag about. The result is a gripping narrative that relates the causes and consequences of a vicious crime to the wider relationships that connect and divide us all. In INVISIBLE BOY Cornelia Read depicts, with sensitivity, eloquence and powerful emotion, the unstable fault lines of family, friendship, and society at large.
科妮莉亚·瑞德(Cornelia Read)在加利福尼亚州纽约市和夏威夷长大,现居于伯克利。
科妮莉亚·瑞德了解第一手的老派“盎格鲁-撒克逊、白人-新教”文化。科妮莉亚母亲的家族世代居住在牡蛎湾中心岛上,而她是在那里居住的第十代(也是最后的一代)人,随后被背弃了嬉皮士精神并离异的的母亲带到大苏尔附近。她的童年导师包括:苏菲派教徒、冲浪运动员、单亲妈妈、黑豹党人、安塞尔·亚当斯(Ansel Adams)、逃避兵役的人、罢工农民,还有亨利·米勒(Henry Miller)最难对付的乒乓对手。
在十五岁那年,瑞德回到了东部,寄宿学校毕业后又拿到大学的全额奖学金。后来在纽约的时候,她母亲婚外恋的男朋友的妻子心怀怨怼,把他们曝光了,他们因此登上了《纽约邮报》(the New York Post)八卦版《第六页》,被所有人驱逐出了社交圈。她通过自己的努力,又慢慢回到社交圈之中。
这位备受赞赏的作者著有作品《黑暗的领域》(A FIELD OF DARKNESS)、《疯狂学校》(THE CRAZY SCHOOL)、《看不见的男孩儿》(INVISIBLE BOY)和最新的《灰烬谷》(Valley of Ashes)。这四部作品的主人公都是言语刻薄却令人难忘的前社会名流马德琳·黛尔。
更多作家信息请见:www.corneliaread.com;www.nakedauthors.com 以及她与吉姆·伯恩(Jim Born)、保罗·莱文(Paul Levine)、帕蒂·斯迈利(Patty Smiley)和杰奎琳·温斯皮尔(Jacqueline Winspear)的合作博客。
瑞德曾凭借Hungry Enough一文,获得夏姆斯短片小说奖(the Shamus Award for best short story)。
瑞德对自家社交名流的传统非常厌恶,因此嫁给了一名可爱而普通的上班族。这位新晋作家目前与丈夫和双胞胎女儿居住在伯克利。
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Invisible Boy pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024