Prep

『所有希望《麥田捕手》男主角柯菲爾是女生的人，請看《我在貴族學校的日子》！』──【美國新聞與世界報導】

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貴族學校的光鮮生活超越以往，
卻也充滿了挑戰與變化，
全新的我期待著，這迎向驚喜的每一天！

我是黎，來自印第安那，在家鄉當資優生的日子其實還不差，所以我真的好蠢，居然非要來到這裡，加入一個根本不屬於我的天地？！

初至著名的貴族學校『奧特』(Ault School )，這裡的學生耀眼得讓我既驚訝又羨慕，但我立刻意識到我們之間無法跨越的距離，他們就像是永遠走好運的超級幸運兒，從不談錢，也不用刻意吸引別人注意，因為那樣很遜。他們似乎都擁有某種本能，就像大草原上的大象，一代接一代都知道要在某個精準的位置，才能找到水喝，而我卻好像自己一個人快要渴死，超不自在的。天知道我有多不想當格格不入的怪胎！我也想要交男朋友，想要生活複雜又不健康，至少，和以前有些不一樣……

在成長的歲月，生活中總有各種難題，關於友誼、成績、師生關係，還有異性、初戀……黎的掙扎從未停止，試著與人交往，卻又保持距離。但誰的年輕歲月不是如此？既渴望融入環境，又期盼自己與眾不同！才女作家希坦菲這本一鳴驚人之作，不但入選《紐約時報》年度十大好書，更被譽為女生版的《麥田捕手》！希坦菲以清新、溫柔，又充滿活力的筆觸，深刻描繪出年輕心靈內在的掙扎與喜悅，以及各種又邪惡又天真的想法，深深感動了全世界的讀者，也讓我們在重新回味青春的點滴之際，給予我們持續向前的勇氣！

本書中譯本由皇冠出版。

　　Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.

　　Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school's glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.

　　As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of-and, ultimately, a participant in-their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she's a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.

　　Ultimately, Lee's experiences-complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.

作者簡介

克蒂絲．希坦菲（Curtis Sittenfeld）

　　近年備受各方讚譽的才女作家。生於一九七五年，家中有四個小孩，她排行老二。十六歲那年，希坦菲即獲得青少年雜誌《17歲》的小說獎；一九九八年又獲《密西西比文學評論》小說獎的肯定，文章散見於美國各大報章雜誌，如《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》等。她畢業於史丹佛大學，並獲得愛荷華大學藝術碩士學位。另著有The Man of My Dreams（《我的完美情人》，皇冠2009年即將出版）。目前希坦菲正致力於她的第三本書。