內容簡介
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit them, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.
作者簡介
Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author known for her 1961 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that the author observed as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Despite being Lee's only published book, it led to her being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Lee has received numerous honorary degrees but has always declined to make a speech. Other significant contributions include assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood.
哈珀·李,1926年齣生於美國南方阿拉巴馬州的一個小鎮,父親是位律師,曾任州立法委員。哈波·李在當地的公立學校畢業後,進入阿拉巴馬大學學習法律,並曾作為交換學生到英國牛津大學學習一年。在還有六個月就要畢業的時候,她離開瞭學校,搬到紐約去追求自己的寫作夢想。她在紐約一邊做航空公司的訂票員,一邊寫作。後來受朋友和編輯的鼓勵,她返迴阿拉巴馬的傢鄉小鎮,以自己的童年生活片斷為基礎創作小說。代錶作是1960年發行的《殺死一隻知更鳥》。這本書直到現在都仍然很暢銷。40年來,盡管狗仔隊查到瞭她的住所——她跟她的姐姐阿麗絲一起住在美國阿拉巴馬州的門羅維爾市,但她從來沒有接受過訪問。她一直都是單身,也沒有子女。
她童年時的玩伴杜魯門·卡波特(與她一同閤作創作瞭《冷血》一書)所經曆過的坎坷——從名聲大噪、聚光燈下的明星、知名配偶、酒宴到吸毒、酗酒以至早年英逝——對於李來說,或許成瞭她不可抹殺的夢魘。
她給《奧普拉》雜誌寫瞭一封信,信中這樣寫道:“在一個盛産手提電腦、iPod和思想就像空蕩蕩的房子一樣的繁華社會裏,我依然與我的書本邁著緩慢的腳步前行。”
精彩書評
"A first novel of such rare excellence that it will no doubt make a great many readers slow down to relish more fully its simple distinction...A novel of strong contemporary national significance."
--Chicago Tribune
"All of the tactile brilliance and none of the precocity generally supposed to be standard swamp-warfare issues for Southern writers...Novelist Lee's prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of use truths about little girls and about Southern life...Scout Finch is fiction's most pealing child since Carson McCullers's Frankie got left behind at the wedding."
--Time
"That rare literary phenomenon, a Southern novel with no mildew on its magnolia leaves. Funny, happy and written with unspectacular precision, To Kill a Mockingbird is about conscience--how it is instilled in two children, Scout and Jem Finch; how it operates in their father, Atticus a lawyer appointed to defend a Negro on a rape charge, and how conscience crows in their small Alabama town."
--Vogue
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