The Green Man
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品牌: Kingsley AmisMichael Dirda
基本信息出版社:NYRB Classics (2013年3月12日)平装:272页语种：英语ISBN:1590176162条形码:9781590176160商品重量:367 gASIN:1590176162您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述媒体推荐''a thoroughly contemporary ghost story . . . A splendid chiller, in the uncomplicated, old-fashioned sense. As one might expect from the author ofLucky Jim, The Green Manis also an extremely funny book, filled with slapstick, parody and satire. Indeed, the success of this short novel depends very much on the balance that Amis maintains between fear and laughter.''
—Robert Kiely,The New York Times
“Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities—including superb sexual comedy."
—Sunday Times
“Kingsley Amis is an important writer, and we cannot afford to lose him. It is no small thing to have written a good ghost story; to have written a ghost story that is also a major novel is nothing short of miraculous.” —Book World
“What makesThe Green Manreadable and re-readable is the skill with which Amis, like Henry James before him, turns the narrative screw. It is, quite simply, a rattling good ghost story.” —The Times(UK)
“In the drunken, lecherous, God-fearing Maurice Allingham, the drunken, lecherous, God-loathing Kingsley Amis created a character who makes sin and redemption far more real and natural than they appear in the works of most professedly Christian novelists.”—The Independent(UK)
“Ghosts, exorcisms, sexual crises: even though first published back in 1969, Kingsley Amis's storyThe Green Manis as up-to-date as any trendy movie of the week. But Mr. Amis, something of an Evelyn Waugh-manque for our times, is after more than a passing chill or two. His hero ponders, through a boozy haze, nothing less than the meaning, or meaninglessness, of life.” —The New York Times
“How rarely do we come across the really frightening ghost story now. Kingsley Amis'sThe Green Manwas a rare and honourable exception, and Amis followed the classic pattern of earlier writers, letting the story progress carefully from a recognisable normality, through unease, to the rapid unfolding of horror that marks out the most successful and scarifying of all horror story writers.” —The Guardian
“[A] powerful and to my mind much under-estimated ghost story.” —Malcolm Bradbury
*The Green Manwas chosen by David Pringle for inclusion in his volumeModern Fantasy: 100 Best Novels(Grafton Books), as well as for James Cawthorne & Michael Moorcock’sFantasy: The 100 Best Books(Carroll & Graf), and in Kim Newman & Stephen Jones’s Horror: 100 Best Books(Carroll & Graf).作者简介Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century. He won an English scholarship to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Following army service during World War II, Amis completed his degree and joined the faculty at the University College of Swansea in Wales.Lucky Jim, his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a Somerset Maugham Award; from that point on he would publish roughly a book a year. Amis received the Booker Prize for his novelThe Old Devilsin 1986 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990.
Michael Dirda, a weekly book columnist for The Washington Post, received the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He is the author of the memoir An Open Book and of four collections of essays: Readings,Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure. His most recent book, On Conan Doyle, received a 2012 Edgar Award for best critical/biographical work of the year. Dirda graduated with Highest Honors in English from Oberlin College and earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature (medieval studies and European romanticism) from Cornell University. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, the online Barnes & Noble Review, and several other periodicals, as well as a frequent lecturer and an occasional college teacher.
