The Motion of the Body Through Space基本信息Hardcover: 352 pagesPublisher: The Borough Press (7 May 2020)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0007560788ISBN-13: 978-0007560783Product Dimensions: 159 x 227 x 33mm | 530g页面参数仅供参考,具体以实物为准书籍简介《凯文怎么了》作者新书莱昂内尔·施赖弗(Lionel Shriver)以风趣的笔触讽刺了现如今的运动崇拜——它不仅能促进健康状况,现如今更像所有宗教一样,似乎兼具了某种意义、社会优越性和长生不老的承诺——年迈的丈夫突然沉迷极限运动,令其变得难以忍受。雷明顿(Remington)提前退休后,便告知妻子塞雷娜塔(Serenata)他决定参加马拉松比赛。这话出自一个六十几岁久坐不动的人之口,他一辈子也没做过什么运动。他的妻子认为他的野心“无可救药的老套”。独来独往的塞雷娜塔蔑视任何形式的集体活动。此外,他选择的时机也很残忍。塞雷娜塔一直是个运动狂,但是6 ... 展开完整描述 ▼
The Motion of the Body Through Space
基本信息
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: The Borough Press (7 May 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0007560788
ISBN-13: 978-0007560783
Product Dimensions: 159 x 227 x 33mm | 530g
页面参数仅供参考,具体以实物为准
书籍简介
《凯文怎么了》作者新书
莱昂内尔·施赖弗(Lionel Shriver)以风趣的笔触讽刺了现如今的运动崇拜——它不仅能促进健康状况,现如今更像所有宗教一样,似乎兼具了某种意义、社会优越性和长生不老的承诺——年迈的丈夫突然沉迷极限运动,令其变得难以忍受。
雷明顿(Remington)提前退休后,便告知妻子塞雷娜塔(Serenata)他决定参加马拉松比赛。这话出自一个六十几岁久坐不动的人之口,他一辈子也没做过什么运动。他的妻子认为他的野心“无可救药的老套”。独来独往的塞雷娜塔蔑视任何形式的集体活动。此外,他选择的时机也很残忍。塞雷娜塔一直是个运动狂,但是60岁时,她的私人健身教练的训练方法摧毁了她的膝盖,她很快就要接受手术。没错,多运动对雷明顿的心脏有好处,但是为什么不出去散步呢?
随着雷明顿加入越来越风靡西方世界的健身热潮,她曾经谦逊的丈夫变成了令人难以忍受的自恋狂。他不顾其他的责任和义务,聘请了一位俏皮、性感的私人教练班比(Bambi),这位教练对待塞雷娜塔十分无礼。当雷明顿将注意力投向艰辛的铁人三项时,塞雷娜塔确信他一定会以受伤或者死亡收场。即便他活下来,他们的婚姻也难逃一劫。
《身体在空间中活动》(The Motion of the Body Through Space)展现了莱昂内尔·施赖弗(Lionel Shriver)的经典风格,通过深刻的心理洞察力、丰满的人物形象、丰沛的情感对当代文化进行了敏锐的解读,激发了读者的共鸣。
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin
Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled – on her lonesome. But now that she’s hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise.
Which should be good for his health, right? Yet as he joins the cult of fitness that seems increasingly to consume the whole of the Western world, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. Ignoring all his other obligations in the service of extreme sport, he engages a saucy, taunting personal trainer named Bambi, who treats his wife with contempt. When Remington announces his intention to compete in a legendarily gruelling triathlon, MettleMan, Serenata is sure he"s going to end up injured or dead – but the stubbornness of an ageing man in Lycra is not to be underestimated.
The story of an obsession, of a marriage, of a betrayal: The Motion of the Body Through Space is Lionel Shriver at her hilarious, sharp-eyed, audacious best.
作者简介
莱昂内尔·施赖弗(Lionel Shriver)写过的小说包括《新共和》(The New Republic)、《到此为止》(So Much for That)、《生日过后的世界》(The Post-Birthday World),以及《凯文怎么了》(We Need to Talk About Kevin)。她的新闻报道类文章还出现在《卫报》(Guardian)、《纽约时报》(the New York Times)、《华尔街新闻》(the Wall Street Journal)以及其他报刊杂志上。
目前,她在伦敦和纽约的布鲁克林生活。
作品有:
《雌性物种》(The Female of the Species) ,1986
《检查与改进》(Checker and the Derailleurs ) ,1987
《流血的心》(The Bleeding Heart ) ,1990
《体面的普通罪犯》(Ordinary Decent Criminals ) , 1992
《游戏控制》(Game Control ) ,1994
《完美家庭》(A Perfectly Good Family),1996
《双误》(Double Fault),1997
《凯文怎么了?》(We Need Talk About Kevin),2003,赢得了2005年橘子小说奖(the Orange Prize for fiction in 2005)
《生日过后的世界》(The Post-Birthday World ) ,2007本书简体中文版权已授
《何处可归》(So Much for That ) , 2010
《新共和》(The New Republic),2012
《大哥》(Big Brother: A Novel),2013
Lionel Shriver"s novels include The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and A Perfectly Good Family. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London.