成名在望，一个作家的诞生──A Ladder to the Sky
摩里斯帅气迷人，并怀抱着作家梦。讽刺的是，他想像力匮乏，却誓言不让这个致命缺点阻碍他的前途。他搭上知名作家艾克曼，半哄半骗让艾克曼道出私人秘密，再写成小说。艾克曼因而被舆论谋杀，摩里斯则跃为畅销作家。食髓知味的他将继续寻找成名之路的垫脚石——毕竟只要能成功，毁掉几个人的人生也不算什麽……
A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one cunning, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success
“Clever, chilling, and beautifully paced; a study of inner corrosion that Patricia Highsmith herself could not have done better.”
── The Times (London)
Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent – but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own.
Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful – but desperately lonely – older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice’s first novel.
Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall…
Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso.
A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one cunning, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success
“Clever, chilling, and beautifully paced; a study of inner corrosion that Patricia Highsmith herself could not have done better.”
── The Times (London)
Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent – but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own.
Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful – but desperately lonely – older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice’s first novel.
Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall…
Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso.
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