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任憑擺佈的網球 The Stars' Tennis Balls 史蒂芬弗雷 Stephen Fry 復仇 Revenge

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網路世代的基度山恩仇記

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STEPHEN
FRY

Dogs own space and cats own time.         
        
THE STARS'
TENNIS BALLS


"A gruesome romp through the canon
of human wickedness" The Times

      
            
網路世代的基度山恩仇記

對奈德而言,1980年似乎是個好年頭,英俊瀟灑、受人歡迎又有才情,志得意滿生活可說是順得不得了。然後他遇上了波夏.范迪曼,人生圓滿的最後一塊拼圖終於出現了。

然而,人生最重要的莫過於時間點,就是在這個節骨眼,奈德的生活從此改變不復返。

事態的發展對天真無邪的少年奈德來說可說是急轉直下,而對行將就木的老師所做的諾言,以及同儕的惡作劇,讓奈德從高高在上的板球隊長落得單獨禁閉的下場,忽然間從學生代表跌到地獄深淵。

之後當奈德再次出現時,此時的他滿腦子只有一個念頭——報仇,復仇是目前他最想大快朵頤的一道佳餚,並且以此好好款待那些曾密謀與他作對的人。

《任人擺弄的網球》既是一則愛的故事又兼具驚悚懸疑的情節,一部絕妙的混合體裁,而如此佳餚也只有史蒂芬.弗雷得以端菜上桌以饗讀者。

至於本書奇特的書名,則是取材自十七世紀英國劇作家約翰.韋伯斯特(John Webster)筆下著名戲劇《馬爾菲公爵夫人》(亦名:愛在黑暗蔓延時,The Duchess of Malfi),當中的一句台詞「我們不過是權貴手中的網球,不論往哪敲擊拍打,總是任隨他們高興。」(We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way please them.),一舉道盡平民的無奈與悲哀。日後本書於美國發行時,為出版商易名為《復仇》(Revenge),雖是直截了當,卻也少了原先挖苦諷刺的韻 味。


A Count of Monte Cristo for the dot.com generation…
Whatever Stephen Fry does, he has it — that rare, unlearnable quality.
When he speaks, you listen. When he writes, you read.
—— Literary Review

For Ned, 1980 seems a blissful year. Handsome, charming, popular and talented, his life is progressing smoothly, effortlessly, happily. And when he meets the lovely Portia Fendeman his personal jigsaw appears complete.

But timing is everything in life, and his life is about to change for ever.

Things are going to get very bad indeed for innocent young Ned. A promise made to a dying teacher and a spiteful trick played by fellow pupils will rocket Ned from cricket captain to solitary confinement, from head boy to hell. When Ned emerges he is a man bent on just one thing - revenge; and revenge is a dish he plans to savour and serve to those who conspired against him.

Part love story, part thriller, a gloriously rich mix that only Stephen Fry can dish up to us, The Stars' Tennis Balls will leave you happy and replete.


It all began some time in the last century, in an age when lovers wrote letters to each other sealed up in envelopes. Sometimes they used coloured inks to show their love, or they perfumed their writing-paper with scent.

41 Plough Lane,
Hampstead,
London NW3

Monday, June 2nd 1980

Darling Ned —
I'm sorry about the smell. I hope you ye opened this somewhere private, all on your own. You'll getteased to distraction otherwise. It's called Rive Gauche, so I'm feeling like Simone de Beauvoir and I hope you're feeling like Jean-Paul Sartre. Actually I hope you aren't because I think he was pretty horrid to her. I'm writing this upstairs after a row with Pete and Hillary. Ha, ha, ha! Pete and Hillary, Pete and Hillary, Pete and Hillary. You hate it when I call them that, don't you? I love you so much. If you saw my diary you'd die. I wrote a whole two pages this morning. I drew up a list of everything that's wonderful and glorious about you and one day when we re together for ever I might let you look at it and you'll die again.

I wrote that you're old-fashioned.

One: the first time we met you stood up when I entered the room, which was sweet, but it was the Hard Rock Café and I was coming out of the kitchen to take your order.

Two: every time I refer to my mum and dad as Peter and Hillary, you go pink and tighten your lips.

Three: when you first talked to Pete and — all right, I'll let you off — when you first talked to Mum and Dad, you let them go on and on about private education and private health and how terrible it was and how evil the government is and you never said a word. About your dad being a Tory MP, I mean. You talked beautifully about the weather and incomprehensibly about cricket. But you never let on...


             
■史蒂芬.弗雷/Stephen Fry
弗雷為英國知名演員、喜劇演員、作家和電視主持人,為英國公開出櫃的同性戀者。弗雷曾與英國演員《流氓醫生》(House)侯.羅利(Hugh Laurie)搭檔成為「弗雷和羅利」的喜劇雙人團體,代表作《弗雷羅利秀》和《萬能管家》。並於一九九九以《王爾德與他的情人》(Wilde)王爾德一角入圍第五十六屆金球獎入選最佳劇情類電影男主角獎項。

多才多藝的弗雷除了長期主持英國廣播公司(British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC)電視節目《QI》,並出版多本著作與撰寫雜誌專欄,近年知名作品為《哈比人:荒谷惡龍》(The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)當中的長湖鎮鎮長,以及二○○六年《V怪客》(V for Vendetta)當中桀傲不羈的戈登。除了參與電影的演出,弗雷還涉獵了廣播與舞台劇、並著書立論,此外還與喬登.彼得森(Jordan Peterson)、麥克.戴森(Michael Dyson)等人討論政治正確、種族歧視、社會主義與保守主義思想等時下熱門議題,為娛樂圈具有高知名度的演藝人員。

As well as being the bestselling author of three novels, Making History, The Hippopotamus, and The Liar, and the first volume of his autobiography, Moab is My Washpot, Fry has played Peter in Peter's Friends, Wilde in the film Wilde, Jeeves in the television series Jeeves & Wooster and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the television series Fry & Laurie.
   
       
作者:史蒂芬.弗雷/Stephen Fry
版本:New Edition
規格:小平裝/Mass Market Paperback,11.1 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm,496頁
出版商:ARROW BOOKS LTD
出版日期:2001年11月01日
語言:英文
ISBN-10:0-09-972741-2
非新品書頁泛黃,書脊有些微閱讀摺痕,附保護書套,不介意物品狀況再行購買。
Condition: Good. Pre-owned book, minor creases at the spine. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact as well. With dust jacket.


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