《DropCity》：It Is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace,free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier——the unforgiving Interior of Alaska——ln the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naive optimism,the Inhabitants of "Drop City" arrive only to find their utopia already pop-ulated by other young Alaskans who are successfully homesteading In the wilderness. As the two communities collide and winter sets In, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life. love, nourishment, and a roof over one's head. Rich, allusive, and unsentimental, T.C. Boyle's ninth novel !s atour de force Infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisonerS storytelling for which he Is justly famous.
本套书还有《the tortilla curtain》、《RIVEN ROCK》。
作者简介：
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a colli-sion course. Los Anseles liberals Oelaney and Kyra Idossbacherlead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop commu-nity: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive
realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and Am6rica Rinc6n desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Cindido and Oelaney into intimate contact, these four and their worlds 8radually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of opposin8 error and misunderstanding. |
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