Young Tom (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
若きトムの成長と自我の形成を描く物語。家族や友情、社会的期待との葛藤を通して、主人公の内面が少しずつ変わっていく過程を静かな筆致でたどる。
作品情報
少年期の揺らぎと発見を、穏やかで繊細な筆致で描いた一冊。
『Young Tom』は Forrest Reid の晩年の重要作で、1944年に発表され、James Tait Black Memorial Prize を受賞した。少年時代の感情の揺れと、周囲との関係のなかで形づくられる自我を、抑制の効いた文体で描く。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Valancourt Books
- 発売日
- 2023-10-10
- ページ数
- 182ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.7 x 1.17 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781941147498
- ISBN-10
- 1941147496
- 価格
- 2936 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Gay & Lesbian/Literature & Fiction/Fiction/Gay
Young Tom (1944) completes the trilogy of novels featuring Tom Barber, which began with Uncle Stephen (1931) and The Retreat (1936), and it is probably Forrest Reid's finest achievement. Acclaim from contemporary critics was unanimous, and the book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize as the best novel of the year. In many ways, ten-year-old Tom is like other boys: his life centres on his parents, school, and his best friend Pascoe. But he also has another existence, equally real, in his dreams and imagination. In this novel, we follow him as he plays with his three canine companions, Barker, Pincher and Roger, befriends and communicates with a rat and a squirrel, and tries to find out what happened to Ralph Seaford, the dead boy whose ghost now haunts Tom's grandmother's attic. In exquisite prose, without sentimentality, exaggeration, or a single false note, Reid brings to life Tom, his greatest creation, and accomplishes the difficult feat of allowing readers to revisit and experience anew the wonders and mysteries of childhood. This edition features a new introduction by Andrew Doyle.
レビュー
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LIfe for the sensitive soul in another time.
Forrest Reid's best novel about early 20th century middle-class "sensitive" youth in Ireland. I did enjoy reading this and thinking about what it must have been like when a teen was not deluged with media and conspicuous consumption.
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