好女孩不該跟大野狼說話喔……
不僅只是一則童話,更是一則關於愛情、勇氣和成長,撼動每一顆心的故事。
有人想要娶她,有人願意帶她浪跡天涯,而狼人只想將她占為己有……
薇樂麗的姊姊漂亮、善良、善解人意,卻死於狼爪之下。俊俏的鐵匠之子亨利,竭盡一切所能地追求薇樂麗,但是她的狂野芳心早有所屬:青梅竹馬的彼得。而彼得只想帶著薇樂麗逃離家園。
其實當姊姊意外在麥田上喪命狼爪那一刻起,薇樂麗的世界就已開始失序。村裡世世代代的傳統,每月都會為狼人獻上牲祭。如今大家人心惶惶,因為獵狼大師說出一件震撼的消息:狼人就混雜在村民之間,而且每個人都有嫌疑!
不久,大家更發現薇樂麗是唯一聽得到狼人呼喚的人。而狼人說,她必須交出自己的生命,否則她所愛的人,將一一消失……
流傳700年的經典傳奇,將再度擾亂你的安靜世界。別忘了,說出甜美話語的舌頭,往往伴著最尖銳的利牙……
★本書中譯本《血紅帽》由圓神出版
The body of a young girl is discovered in a field of wheat. Her flesh mutilated by telltale claw marks. The Wolf has broken the peace.
When Valerie learns that her sister has been killed by the legendary creature, she finds herself at the center of a dark mystery, one that has plagued her village for generations. It is revealed that the werewolf lives among them, and everyone in the village immediately becomes a suspect. Could her secret love Peter be behind the attacks on her town? Is it her betrothed, Henry? Or someone even closer to her?
As the men in the village hunt for the beast, Valerie turns to her grandmother for help. She gives Valerie a handmade red riding cloak, and guides her through the web of lies and deception that has held her town together for so long. Will Valerie discover the werewolf's identity before the town is ripped apart?
This is a dangerous new vision of a classic fairy tale, the happy ending could be hard to find.
作者簡介
莎拉.布萊克里─卡萊(Sarah Blakley-Cartwright)
新銳年輕作家,在學期間獲得大大小小的文學獎。甫畢業即受到《暮光之城》導演凱薩琳.哈德薇克青睞,欽點她為此部電影撰寫小說。而作者為此部小說,特地至片場訪問所有角色,並親自參與電影的拍攝,忠實呈現電影氛圍。目前居住紐約和洛杉磯。
大衛.雷斯利.強森(Daivd Leslie Johnson)
自小即展現對電影的熱愛,小學二年級就寫出人生的第一部劇本,十九歲寫出電影劇本。大學攻讀電影,畢業後和知名製作與導演合作,參與《刺激1995》《綠色奇蹟》等大片的製作,著有劇本《孤兒怨》等。《血紅帽》的改編概念即源自於他。現與妻子、小孩住在加州。
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is twenty-two years old and is a recent cum laude graduate of Barnard College, the greatest place on earth. She is the recipient of the 2008-2009 Mary Gordon Fiction Scholarship Award and the 2009-2010 Lenore Marshall Barnard Prize for Prose. She splits her time between New York and Los Angeles. Despite what the book may say, she actually prefers wolves to people.
Raised in Mansfield, Ohio, David Leslie Johnson began writing plays in the second grade and wrote his first screenplay at age nineteen. A graduate of Ohio State University in Columbus with a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography and cinema, Johnson worked as a production assistant on the Academy Award-nominated film The Shawshank Redemption, and spent five years as an assistant to the film's director and writer, Frank Darabont. Most recently Johnson wrote an original screenplay for the film Red Riding Hood, directed by Catherine Hardwicke and he has several projects in development. Johnson lives in Burbank, California, with his wife, screenwriter Kimberly Lofstrom Johnson, and their son, Samuel.