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2013年3月25日 スティーヴン・キングが息子であるオーウェン・キングの新作「DOUBLE FEATURE」について、オフィシャル・サイトでコメントした模様。
Stephen Comments on Double Feature by Owen King
"If you are in the mood to laugh your ass off, Double Feature will perform that surgery and painlessly. I am proud of my son, Owen, and in awe of his talent. The book might be a little difficult to locate at Barnes & Noble but if you seek, there or elsewhere, you will find it."
-Stephen King
どうでしょう。ちょっと親バカモード入ってますかね。
『あなたがもし、お尻を吹っ飛ばすくらい笑いたいと思っているなら、この「DOUBLE FEATURE」は痛みなしにお尻を切除してくれるでしょう』って、「DOUBLE FEATURE」ってコメディなんでしょうか。
「DOUBLE FEATURE」は、B級映画俳優の息子であるサム・ドーランが初めての映画を制作する物語のようですが。
因みに「DOUBLE FEATURE」とは映画の《二本立て興行》のことね。
「DOUBLE FEATURE」
著者:オーウェン・キング
出版社:スクリブナー サイモン&シュスターあらすじ:SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan—a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam’s dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only fault, in Sam’s eyes, was her eternal affection for his father. Also included in the cast of indelible characters: a precocious, frequently violent half-sister; a conspiracy-theorist second wife; an Internet-famous roommate; a contractor who can’t stop expanding his house; a happy-go-lucky college girlfriend and her husband, a retired Yankees catcher; the morose producer of a true-crime show; and a slouching indie-film legend. Not to mention a tragic sex monster.
Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan family’s friends, lovers, and adversaries, Double Feature is about letting go of everything—regret, resentment, dignity, moving pictures, the dead—and taking it again from the top. Against the backdrop of indie filmmaking, college campus life, contemporary Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Owen King’s epic debut novel combines propulsive storytelling with mordant wit and brims with a deep understanding of the trials of ambition and art, of relationships and life, and of our attempts to survive it all.
あらすじを読むとコメディとも人生悲劇とも読みとれますね。人生悲喜劇なんでしょうかね。
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