2020現象級作品《什麼荒謬年代》作者凱俐.瑞德沈潛四年
再度用快節奏的作品,展現她對社會的犀利觀點
24歲的蜜莉是阿肯色大學的舍監。她想趕快畢業、找份工作存錢買房。所以當客座教授阿嘉莎提出一份不尋常的交易時,她欣然地接下了這個提議。但是,她的如意算盤很快地就被室友們的勾心鬥角和惡作劇給打亂了…
阿嘉莎是位38歲的同志作家,她除了在阿肯色大學當客座教授外,也為自己的小說搜集材料。她找上了蜜莉同宿舍的五位女學生們採訪,並對她們的說話方式和金錢觀深深著迷。當蜜莉透漏她能夠透過宿舍隔間聽見這幾位學生的對話時,阿嘉莎決定每周向蜜莉租用房間一次,以便偷聽她室友的談話。
以《什麼荒謬年代》入圍2020布克獎的作者凱俐.瑞德,在《Come and Get It》中發揮過人的觀察力,描寫出慾望、過度消費和任性妄為的人性弱點,再度令人深思。 (文∕博客來外文館)
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From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.
It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie’s starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption, and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion, and bad behavior—and the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.