My Dark Vanessa | 誠品線上

凡妮莎

內容簡介

內容簡介 二〇二〇年英美各大媒體最期待小說。二〇〇〇年，十五歲的凡妮莎與富有魅力、心思細膩的四十二歲英文老師陷入不倫戀。二〇一七年，一位老師過去的學生控告他性侵，並向凡妮莎求助。凡妮莎該堅信過去自己是自願與老師發生關係而保持沈默，還是該重新定義年少的自己，審視當年事情經過？是否，那啟蒙她身體的重要存在，與她所相信的其實大相徑庭？ “A hard story to read and a harder one to put down . . . a well-constructed package of dynamite.”—Stephen King Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer. 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed? Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Kate Elizabeth Russell is originally from eastern Maine. She holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Kansas and an MFA from Indiana University. My Dark Vanessa is her first novel.

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