London Revenant

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		London Revenant
		London Revenant

基本信息·出版社：Night Shade Books
·页码：256 页
·出版日期：2007年04月
·ISBN：1597800759
·条形码：9781597800754
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：伦敦幽灵

内容简介 Narcoleptic Adam Buckley is sleeping through his life. He sees people at parties he doesn't remember meeting, but who know him. Deep in London's sprawling Underground, he sees shadows figures beckoning him into tunnels not on any map. As Adam tries to find the secret to his own memories beneath the city, he realizes he is not alone. A madman has taken to pushing people onto the tracks, and it may be someone Adam knows. If only he can remember, before it is too late... Suggestions of half remembered life, and the encroaching threat of violence begins to engulf him, and everyone he knows.
作者简介 Conrad Williams was born in Warrington, Cheshire in 1969 and has been in print since 1988. He has sold around 80 short stories to a diverse range of magazines, anthologies and 'Best of' collections.

In 1993 he won the Littlewood Arc Prize and the British Fantasy Award. In 1998, his debut novel Head Injuries (The Do-Not Press) was published to widespread acclaim. The novel was optioned by Revolution Films in the same year. His work has since been nominated for awards by the BFS and the International Horror Guild.

Conrad Williams is represented by Robert Kirby at Peters Fraser & Dunlop.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Not for the squeamish, this dark contemporary fantasy explores the rotting underbelly of London, where desperate 30-somethings live out meaningless lives devoted to sex, alcohol and perversity. Adam Buckley, a narcoleptic who suffers horrific dreams, gradually finds the line between waking and dreaming harder to distinguish. Events from his conscious life take on a surreal cast. He meets people from his dreams on the streets of London. Ordinary events transform into Grand Guignol and his friends become obsessed with a new game that threatens their sanity and leaves them covered in unnatural sores. Terrified of the London Underground for reasons unknown, Adam dreams of traveling its many disused and dangerous tunnels, while a madman begins a reign of terror, pushing Londoners under the wheels of the Underground carriages. An unreliable narrator, who's often unclear on what's real and what isn't, Adam is the perfect vehicle for this stylish and bloody novel. Williams (Head Injuries) moves seamlessly back and forth between realism and the fantastic, capably bringing his tale to a murderous and apocalyptic ending. (Oct.)
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