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作       者:Ford, Jeffrey

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2009-10-13

字       数:36.2万

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In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sister who inhabits her own secret world, the boy takes his amusements where he can find them. Some of his free time is spent in the basement of the family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with clay figurines representing friends and neighbors. And so the time passes with a not-always-reassuring sameness—until the night a prowler is reported stalking the neighborhood.Appointing themselves ad hoc investigators, the brothers set out to aid the police—while their little sister, Mary, smokes cigarettes, speaks in other voices, inhabits alternate personas . . . and, unbeknownst to her older siblings, moves around the inanimate residents of Botch Town. But ensuing events add a shadowy cast to the boys' night games: disappearances, deaths, and spectral sightings capped off by the arrival of a sinister man in a long white car trawling the neighborhood after dark. Strangest of all is the inescapable fact that every one of these troubling occurrences seems to correspond directly to the changes little Mary has made to the miniature town in the basement.Not since Ray Bradbury's classic Dandelion Wine has a novel so richly evoked the dark magic of small-town boyhood. At once a hypnotically compelling mystery, a masterful re-creation of a unique time and place, a celebration of youth, and a poignant and disquieting portrait of home and family—all balancing on a razor's edge separating reality from the unsettlingly remarkable—The Shadow Year is a monumental new work from one of contemporary fiction's most fearless and inventive artists.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

The Eyes

Will There Be Clowns?

The Shadow Year

A Prowler

As God Is My Judge

Sewer Pipe Hill

Botch Town

Dead Man's Float

He Walks the Earth

The Retard Factory

His Air Was Cold

Never Eat a Peach Leaf

Mr. Blah-Blah

Maybe He'll Show Up for Lunch

Is That You?

The McGinn System

It Must Have Been the Black Olives

You'd Be Surprised

Hand Me the Camera

You'll Need This

Delicious

Every Shadowy Form

Sleeping Powder

We Didn't Go to Church Today

There He Is

Secrets

They'll Bring the Fetid Cheese Ball

They'll Go for That

Snow Globe

He's Coming Up the Drainpipe

Why the Sky Is Blue

A Hundred Bottles A piece

What Time Will D Meet C and A?

Do Something

Not on Your Life

Proof

Driving Back to Yugoslavia

Like That

Welcome, Lou

Children of All Ages

Something Holy

Instant Evidence

Say Cheese

A Lot of Screaming Ensued

A Silent Island

He Kills People

Something's Coming

Shut Up

Make the Moon

The Night Watch

Jonah and the Whale

Ask the Kid

Time of the Season

This Is Cool

Last Chance

Treachery

The Splinter

Bang

Those Normal Years

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Other Books by Jeffrey Ford

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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