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作者:LaPlante,Alice
出版时间:2011-7-5
书籍简介:
A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired orthopedic surgeon with dementia, Turn of Mind has already received worldwide attention. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante brings us deep into a brilliant woman’s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse.
As the book opens, Dr. Jennifer White’s best friend, Amanda, who lived down the block, has been killed, and four fingers surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime suspect and she herself doesn’t know whether she did it. Told in White’s own voice, fractured and eloquent, a picture emerges of the surprisingly intimate, complex alliance between these life-long friends—two proud, forceful women who were at times each other’s most formidable adversaries. As the investigation into the murder deepens and White’s relationships with her live-in caretaker and two grown children intensify, a chilling question lingers: is White’s shattered memory preventing her from revealing the truth or helping her to hide it?
A startling portrait of a disintegrating mind clinging to bits of reality through anger, frustration, shame, and unspeakable loss, Turn of Mind is a remarkable debut that examines the deception and frailty of memory and how it defines our very existence.
作者简介:
愛麗絲·拉普蘭：
美國史丹佛大學華萊士‧史德葛萊研究員，並擔任學校講師，同時，她在舊金山市州立大學教授寫作課程。
平日除了寫小說和在兩所大學教書之外，拉普蘭也進行商業寫作(她擁有寫作和工商管理學碩士兩個學位)。
她的作品曾發表在《西南評論》《新紀元》《發現》和《商業週刊》等知名報章雜誌，已經出版了四部非文學書。
《肢解記憶》是她跨越到文學小說創作的處女作。
