书籍介绍
一个职业杀手决定金盆洗手,却在最后一单上栽了。这看似是个干脆的悬疑设定,但斯蒂芬·金真正下笔的地方,是杀手比利用写作来打捞记忆——那些被刻意封存的战场、童年与愧疚,随着他一字字敲下键盘,像被打开的门和窗,一点点漏了进来。小说采用双线叙事:明线是冷静克制的行动,暗线却是比利第一人称的内心独白,让一个习惯消失于无形的人,第一次无法对自己隐瞒。读者对本书的分歧也由此而生:有人爱极了这种把枪口转向内心的写法,认为人性刻画深刻;也有人嫌它篇幅拖沓、结局老套,不过是《这个杀手不太冷》的变奏。它几乎老金笔下唯一没有超自然元素的一部,靠的纯粹是人物自身的重量。适合愿意慢下来、把一把狙击枪背后的创伤当作主角来消化的读者。
作者简介
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.