Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial wit his parents' woeful marriage and inevitable divorce, thei...(展开全部)

Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial wit his parents' woeful marriage and inevitable divorce, thei...(展开全部)

In "Ichthyology," a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told obliquely, often through the boy's observations of his tropical fish, yet also reveals his father's last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry for commercial fishing in the Bering Sea. "Rhoda" goes back to the beginning of the father's second marriage and the boy's fascina...(展开全部)

In "Ichthyology," a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told obliquely, often through the boy's observations of his tropical fish, yet also reveals his father's last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry for commercial fishing in the Bering Sea. "Rhoda" goes back to the beginning of the father's second marriage and the boy's fascina...(展开全部)

在那座小島的冰原之下，我埋葬了我的父親、我的十三歲，還有，我的未來。 「大衛．范恩以非凡、新穎的變型小說體講述其父之死，勢將成為美國經典。」 －－《泰晤士報文學副刊》 槍聲響起的那一刻開始，我的世界就停止了。 少年羅伊答應跟父親一起到阿拉斯加海岸一座無人小島上生活一年。但是，他很快就發現，看似可靠的父親，面對樣樣都缺的小島生活，竟然沒有一點計畫；帶到島上的生活基本所需物資，卻被小屋的不速之客一掃而空。眼看寒冬即將到來，唯一會來小島的飛機也將停飛，他們必須靠自己的力量，想辦法撐過寒冬。夜裡，父親隱隱的啜泣，讓羅伊更感不安，白日裡，羅伊還是能隱約感受到父親的沮喪。在他們探險小島的一趟旅程中，羅伊甚至覺得父親是故意失足跌落山崖……他有一種預感，他們似乎再也離不開這座小島了…… 記憶的光線，折射出六個故事。生命中已然發生的事情，不可能改變。作者以小說叩問了生...(展开全部)

在那座小島的冰原之下，我埋葬了我的父親、我的十三歲，還有，我的未來。 「大衛．范恩以非凡、新穎的變型小說體講述其父之死，勢將成為美國經典。」 －－《泰晤士報文學副刊》 槍聲響起的那一刻開始，我的世界就停止了。 少年羅伊答應跟父親一起到阿拉斯加海岸一座無人小島上生活一年。但是，他很快就發現，看似可靠的父親，面對樣樣都缺的小島生活，竟然沒有一點計畫；帶到島上的生活基本所需物資，卻被小屋的不速之客一掃而空。眼看寒冬即將到來，唯一會來小島的飛機也將停飛，他們必須靠自己的力量，想辦法撐過寒冬。夜裡，父親隱隱的啜泣，讓羅伊更感不安，白日裡，羅伊還是能隱約感受到父親的沮喪。在他們探險小島的一趟旅程中，羅伊甚至覺得父親是故意失足跌落山崖……他有一種預感，他們似乎再也離不開這座小島了…… 記憶的光線，折射出六個故事。生命中已然發生的事情，不可能改變。作者以小說叩問了生...(展开全部)

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The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, drugs, porn and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, it is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money and the disasters it can precipitate.

The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, drugs, porn and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, it is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money and the disasters it can precipitate. Hailed as "a sprawling, fierce, vulgar display" (The New Republic) and "exhilarating, skillful, savvy" (The Times Literary Supplement) when it mad...(展开全部)