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A Gun for Sale
Graham Greene · 初版 1936 年
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Raven 是一个面目丑陋、专门从事卑劣行径的人。他冷血暗杀了一位欧洲陆军大臣，这种暴力行径带来了令人不寒而栗的严重后果，不仅波及 Raven 自身，更席卷了整个国家。他收到的买凶酬金全是被盗纸币，当第一张钞票被顺藤摸瓜追踪到时，Raven 沦为了亡命之徒。在追查背叛他的中介并试图摆脱警方追捕的过程中，他既是猎人也是猎物，身不由己地沦为某种奇特社会正义的武器。借此，他也为 Greene 的下一部小说 B 奠定了铺垫
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…Lay Dying - Garland, Alex: The Beach - George, Elizabeth: Deception on His Mind - Gerritsen, Tess: Gravity - Golding, William: Lord of the Flies - Gray, Muriel: Furnace - Greene, Graham: A Gun for Sale (又名 This Gun for Hire) - Greene, Graham: Our Man in Havana - Halberstam, David: The Fifties - Hamill, Pete: Why Sinatra Matters - Harris, Thomas: Hannibal - Haruf, Kent: Plainsong - Hoeg,…
…Lay Dying - Garland, Alex: The Beach - George, Elizabeth: Deception on His Mind - Gerritsen, Tess: Gravity - Golding, William: Lord of the Flies - Gray, Muriel: Furnace - Greene, Graham: A Gun for Sale (aka This Gun for Hire) - Greene, Graham: Our Man in Havana - Halberstam, David: The Fifties - Hamill, Pete: Why Sinatra Matters - Harris, Thomas: Hannibal - Haruf, Kent: Plainsong - Hoeg,…
对，那是为了美国市场重新改的书名。顺便说一句，Greene 的好几部早期小说都遇到过这事（比如《A Gun for Sale》就变成了《This Gun for Hire》）。后来的美版又改回了原书名。有意思的是，出版商曾要求给他后期的小说《The Human Factor》改名，结果导致 Greene 换了…
Yep, it was retitled for the US market. That, incidentally, happened with a number of Greene's earlier novels (A Gun for Sale, for example, became This Gun for Hire). Later U.S. editions restored the original titles. Interestingly, a request from the publisher to retitle his late novel, The Human Factor, led to Greene changing…