Sleeping Beauty读书介绍
类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
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书籍 | 288页 | 2020 | Vintage |
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USD 16.00 | 2020-02-20 … | 2021-11-26 … | 51 |
In Sleeping Beauty , Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a
wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written, Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best.
If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.
作者简介罗斯•麦克唐纳(Ross Macdonald,1915-1983)
罗斯•麦克唐纳,本名肯尼斯•米勒,生于美国加州,是著名的高学历作家,拥有文学博士头衔。他曾服役于美国海军情报局,退役后在母校密歇根大学执教。二十三岁时,麦克唐纳与著名的侦探小说家玛格丽特•米勒结为夫妇。受妻子影响,他开始涉足犯罪小说的创作。前四部作品均以本名发表,第五部长篇小说《移动飞靶》发表时,取笔名为罗斯•麦克唐纳。
麦克唐纳幼年丧父,唯一的女儿又因脑出血离世,因此他笔下的故事总被浓郁的悲伤气氛所笼罩,“亲子分离”也是他擅长描写的主题。其作品文笔优美,心理描写细腻深刻,用词简约,韵味悠长。在处理犯罪的心理层面上,若说他是最写实、并对后代作家最具启发性的侦探小说大师,并不为过。他的角色心理深度超越了所有同类型的作品;对各种角色的处理不像钱德勒那样爱下结论,他总是留给角色一些“不解...
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