商品简介 Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city. Seventeen-year-old?Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret’s obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them—and Bret in particular—with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his friends—or his own mind—to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between the Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.? Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero L.A., The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret’s life at seventeen—sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting, and often darkly funny, The Shards is Ellis at his inimitable best. 布雷特·伊斯顿·埃利斯 (Bret Easton Ellis) 这部精彩的新小说讲述了纯真的终结以及从青春期到成年的危险转变,故事背景设定在 1981 年充满活力的虚构洛杉矶,一名连环杀手开始针对全市青少年进行袭击。十七岁的布雷特是巴克利预科学校的一名高年级学生,一名带着神秘过去的新生到来了。罗伯特·马洛里聪明、英俊、有魅力,在成为布雷特和他的朋友们紧密圈子的一部分时,他向他们隐瞒了一个秘密。布雷特对马洛里的痴迷只能与他对拖网渔船的日益令人不安的关注相媲美,拖网渔船是一个逍遥法外的连环杀手,他似乎越来越接近布雷特和他的朋友,用怪诞的威胁和可怕的、尖锐的方式嘲笑他们——尤其是布雷特。当地的暴力行为。这些巧合是不可思议的,但它们也通过一个青少年的想象力过滤出来,他从自己生活的细丝中构建叙事的天赋即将使他成为这一代人中*具爆炸性的文学轰动者之一。他能相信他的朋友——或者他自己的想法——能够理解他们所面临的危险吗?受到世界和他自己与生俱来的欲望的阻碍,受到不健康的固着的打击,当拖网渔船和罗伯特·马洛里之间的关系无情地冲向冲突时,他陷入了偏执和孤立。 《碎片》以《洛杉矶不到零》之前的强烈生动和怀旧的背景为背景,是事实与虚构、真实与想象的令人着迷的融合,出色地探索了布雷特十七岁生活的情感结构——性、嫉妒、痴迷和凶残的愤怒。 《碎片》扣人心弦、狡猾、悬疑、令人难以忘怀,而且常常带有黑色幽默,是埃利斯无与伦比的*佳作品。
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