Originally published in England in 1996,Alice Thomas Ellis's most recent novel is a contemporary fable,satirical and unsettling,unearthly yet wordly-wise.It centers on a little brick house in an isolated valley in deepest Wales,to which a young couple move from the city in search of a life in touch with nature.At first,the idyllic retreat is everything they'd hoped,but when four incongruous visitors one day arrive at the little house,uncanny and inexplicable things begin to happen.In her
inimitable fashion,ellis reminds us that the marvelous attends the everyday,and not always to benevolent effect.
作者简介
Alice Thomas Ellis (also writes as Anna Margaret Haycraft), is a novelist and columnist. She was born in Liverpool, England in 1932. She attended Bangor Grammar School and the Liverpool School of Art. Ellis wrote a weekly column for the Spectator from 1985 to 1989 and for the Catholic Herald from 1990 to 1996. She co-wrote two books on juvenile delinquency with psychiatrist Tom Pitt-Atkins. Ellis also wrote A Welsh Childhood, a book recounting the history of Wales and featuring the photographs of Patrick Sutherland. Ellis has written several novels beginning with The Sin Eater in 1977. The novel won the Welsh Arts Council Award. Other
novels include Unexplained Laughter which won the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year in 1985 and The Inn at the End of the World which was the winner of the Writer's Guild Award for Best Fiction in 1991. Another novel, The 27th Kingdom, received a Booker Prize Nomination in 1982. She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature from 1999 until her death in 2005, due to lung cancer. |
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