Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in 1934, Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine. After two years in the Royal Navy as part of his National Service, Chambers trained as a teacher and taught for three years at Westcliff High School in Southend on Sea before joining an Anglican monastery in Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1960. He later used his experience as a monk in his novel Now I Know.
His first plays, including Johnny Salter (1966), The Car and The Chicken Run (1968), were published while he was a teacher at Archway School in Stroud.
Chambers left the monastery in 1967 and a year later became a freelance writer. His works include the "Dance sequence" of six novels: Breaktime, Dance on My Grave, Now I Know, The Toll Bridge, Postcards from No Man's Land which won the 1999 Carnegie Medal and This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn. He and his wife, Nancy, founded Thimble Press and the magazine Signal to promote literature for children and young adults. They were awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding services to children's books in 1982. From 2003 to 2006 he was President of the School Library Association.
Dance on My Grave: a life and a death in four parts, one hundred and seventeen bits, six running reports and two press clippings, with a few jokes, a puzzle or three, some footnotes and a fiasco now and then to help the story along is a 1982 young adult novel by British author Aidan Chambers. It is the second book in the Dance Sequence series.
It tells the story of a British teenager named Henry Robinson, detailing the events that led to his dancing on the grave of his slightly older friend, Barry Gorman, with whom Robinson had a love affair.
It was one of the first few young adult books published by a major publisher that depicts homosexuality without being judgmental and was included on ALA's and other libraries' list of books for gay teens. It has also been referred to in a number of books on children and young adult literature.
Because of its gay-positive theme, it was challenged at the Montgomery County Memorial Library System in 2004 by the Library Patrons of Texas.
一口气读完朋友推荐的DANCE ON MY GRAVE(这个名字真的像极了奥登的诗句)。 许多情结让人会心一笑。 尤其是,那些只有青春年少恋人间才会有的独特语言、思绪和小动作。 作者对写作语言的选择充分展示了少年亨利纯真、善感、多思、细腻和依恋的性格特征。少女凯莉极其成熟的言...
评分在网上看了一点英文原文,觉得翻译文字似乎还是有点平淡了,个人感觉而已。。可能因为李先生还是想把这个主题处理到男孩子间的充满巨大热情的友谊上去,但是人家明明是基佬之爱呀! 无论如何看完故事的人都应该会挺喜欢小哈尔的。
评分其实我是很少去搜索小说来读的……不是不喜欢,而是我懒得……其实我还是很喜欢读小说的……总比做作业感觉好……【笑 但是你给我的,或者说你们给我的东西总有一种不可触碰的感觉,别想多了,不是圣神地不可触碰,是怕里面有我们心照不宣的事情被父母发现……呐~都知道我在父...
评分爱做为一个永恒的话题,它的对象是人类,而不是某个人,对于某个人来说,也也许是残酷的,尤其是对于少年。也许每个人都经历过那种青春期的孤独,那孤独蔓延的岁月里,友情和爱是救命稻草,但也许也会分不清楚,对于青春期的少年,爱都是挣扎,挣扎着走向成熟,走向死亡,这也...
评分“你答应我,如果我先死你会在我的坟上跳舞。” 我想我在看到这句话的时候,心中有些苦涩感。在年少时,人们对死有两种极端的态度,一是故意忽略,二是无时无刻想象着自己的死亡。 这并不是个复杂的故事——十六的哈儿,与十八的巴瑞,在海边结识,哈儿以为巴瑞就是他从小一...
Think about death and love and life and why you're changing.一首痛苦的成长之歌。
评分没想象中好。
评分Think about death and love and life and why you're changing.一首痛苦的成长之歌。
评分Barry太自我而Hal太自怜,Kari一定是读者一开始最讨厌而最后最喜欢的角色。有意思的书,但是不属于最好的Young Adult Novel之列。
评分没想象中好。
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