副标题: A Novel
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作者:AliSmith
出版时间:2011-9-13
书籍简介:
From the award-winning author of Hotel World and The Accidental , a dazzling, funny, and wonderfully exhilarating new novel.
At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miles’s story is told from the points of view of four of them: Anna, a woman in her forties; Mark, a man in his sixties; May, a woman in her eighties; and a ten-year-old named Brooke. The thing is, none of these people knows Miles more than slightly. How much is it possible for us to know about a stranger? And what are the consequences of even the most casual, fleeting moments we share every day with one another?
Brilliantly audacious, disarmingly playful, and full of Smith’s trademark wit and puns, There but for the is a deft exploration of the human need for separation—from our pasts and from one another—and the redemptive possibilities for connection. It is a tour de force by one of our finest writers.
作者简介:
阿莉•史密斯（Ali Smith，1962- ），英国作家。出生于工人家庭，成长于苏格兰印威内斯，现居剑桥。她于英国阿伯丁大学毕业后，前往剑桥大学纽汉姆学院攻读哲学博士，但并未获得学位。此后在斯特拉斯克莱德大学做讲师，由于患上慢性疲劳综合征，被迫辞职开始作为全职作家撰稿 ，于2007年入选英国皇家文学学会。
史密斯已出版八部小说和四部短篇小说集，多次获得布克奖提名，并以其作品中体现出的强烈的实验性、同理心与形式意识被评论家称誉为“最具天赋的弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫继承者之一”。她是一个公开的同性恋者，和电影摄制者莎拉•伍德一起住在剑桥。
