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基本信息·出版社：Algonquin Books
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2008年04月
·ISBN：1565125762
·International Standard Book Number：1565125762
·条形码：9781565125766
·EAN：9781565125766
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
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Part classic noir thriller, part mind-bending fantasy,
The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. It is the story of Sweeney, a druggist by trade, and his son, Danny, the victim of an accident that has left him in a persistent coma. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have "resurrected" two patients who were lost in the void. What Sweeney comes to realize, though, is that the real cure to his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a fantasy comic book world into which his son had been drawn at the time of his accident. Plunged into the intrigue that envelops the clinic, Sweeney's search for answers leads to sinister back alleys, brutal dead ends, and terrifying rabbit holes of darkness and mystery.
O'Connell has crafted a mesmerizing novel about stories and what they can do for and to those who create them and those who consume them. About the nature of consciousness and the power of the unknown. About psychotic bikers, mad neurologists, and wandering circus freaks. About loss and grief and rage. And, ultimately, about forgiveness and the depth of our need to extend it and receive it.
作者简介 Jack O'Connell is the author of several acclaimed novels. O'Connell has been described as a cyberpunk Dashiell Hammett. His dark, noir-ish crime stories are dragging the crime genre into new realms. He lives in Wooster, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.
媒体推荐 "A masterpiece, O'Connell's
tour de force has a dose of the uncertainty of Kafka, the fantasy of Bradbury, the crisp prose of Greene, and the noir of Chandler." - The Strand Magazine (
The Strand Magazine )
"A masterpiece, O'Connell's tour de force has a dose of the uncertainty of Kafka, the fantasy of Bradbury, the crisp prose of Greene, and the noir of Chandler." - The Strand Magazine (
The Strand Magazine )
"It's a measure of O'Connell's immense talent that, while creating his absolutely original and hyperbolic world, he also paints a striking vision of the haunting ways in which life and art mirror each other."— Publishers Weekly, starred (
Publishers Weekly )
"O'Connell is a mesmerizing storyteller."—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution )
"Unfailingly sly. . . . O'Connell is skilled at walking his particular tightrope between reality and surreality."—The Washington Post (
The Washington Post )
A "dark, wildly inventive fantasy. . . . A nightmarish story that’s hallucinatory, tightly structured and ultimately redemptive."—Kirkus (
Kirkus Reviews )
A dark, wildly inventive fantasy. . . . A nightmarish story thats hallucinatory, tightly structured and ultimately redemptive.Kirkus (
Kirkus Reviews )
It's a measure of O'Connell's immense talent that, while creating his absolutely original and hyperbolic world, he also paints a striking vision of the haunting ways in which life and art mirror each other. Publishers Weekly, starred (
Publishers Weekly )
O'Connell is a mesmerizing storyteller.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution )
Unfailingly sly. . . . O'Connell is skilled at walking his particular tightrope between reality and surreality.The Washington Post (
The Washington Post )
编辑推荐 In four previous novels, Jack O'Connell has established a reputation as an author of literary-suspense and thriller-noir. This time, with
The Resurrectionist, he has consolidated and surpassed that reputation with a story so mesmerizing that the reader can't figure out what is real and what's imaginary, what is threatening and what is make-believe.
The wraparound story in this multi-layered tale is about Sweeney, a pharmacist by trade, and his young son, Danny, the victim of an accident that has left him in a coma. Sweeney moves Danny to a hospital specializing in comatose patients, the Peck Clinic. The Doctors Peck, father and daughter, claim to have "resurrected" two patients from the void of deep coma. Prior to Danny's accident, he and Sweeney had been reading a fantasy series of comic books called Limbo, and it is around these stories that things get really interesting. There are circus freaks, weird stunts, an apparent "resurrection" or two, a long odyssey in search of a lost father--any number of plot lines and characters overlapping between what is real in Sweeney's life, and what might be a dream or drugged reality, and what is storybook fiction.
Alongside all the strange and convoluted events of the novel there is a compelling meditation on the power of story, the meaning of madness and sanity and the very nature of consciousness. This is more than fantasy; it is a masterful and wholly imaginative invention based on the sad reality of a father and son trying to find one another again. --Valerie Ryan
专业书评 "This will be the novel that garners Jack O'Connell widespread sales and critical acclaim. The Resurrectionist—a brilliantly tuned, mesmerizing labyrinth of a quasi-real world as only a master artist could draw it—will jazz you, floor you, grab you, and shake you and leave you hung out to dry in that world. A brilliant break-through novel.”
—James Ellroy
