THE MORNING AND THE EVENING: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 06000015B79287
English Summary/英文概要： Finalist for the National Book Award: Joan Williams’s unforgettable first novel is the story of a small Southern town struggling to care for one of its own.
In a rundown farmhouse in Mississippi, Jake Darby wakes up one morning to find his world forever changed. His long-suffering mother has died overnight, abandoning forty-year-old Jake, who is mute and, according to his neighbors, not quite right in the head. With no family to take him in, it is up to the townspeople of Marigold to take care of Jake, a grave responsibility that brings out the best—and the worst—of a community in which painful truths are usually hidden from sight. In such a place, even the kindest of acts can lead to the most tragic of outcomes.
Heralded as the debut of a major new talent when it was first published in 1961, The Morning and the Evening won the John P. Marquand First Novel Award from the Book-of-the-Month Club and established Joan Williams as a leading voice in Southern literature. Elegant, compassionate, and deeply unsettling, it is a portrait of the human spirit in all of its flawed and intricate beauty, and a tale firmly grounded in reality yet told with all the power of myth.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事发生在密西西比。40岁的主人公Jake Darby是个哑巴，头脑也不太灵光，平时都靠自己的老母亲照顾。一天，他的母亲突然去世。照顾Jake的重担就落到了Marigold镇上的人身上。在照顾Jake的过程中，这个社区最美好的和最丑恶的一面都慢慢显露出来……即使是最善意的举动也可能导致悲剧的后果……
本书是作者的处女作，最早于1961年出版，并获得了由Book-of-the-Month Club颁发的John P. Marquand First Novel Award，也奠定了作者在南方文学界的领先地位。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“首部小说便体现出如此娴熟的写作技巧实属罕见……《晨昏》定能打动读者的心。”——《纽约时报》
“First novels as deft and disciplined as this are rare indeed. . . . The Morning and the Evening should delight thoughtful lovers of the best in fiction.” —The New York Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Joan Williams (1928–2004)，著名小说家。其作品《晨昏》曾入围国家图书奖。作者出生在孟菲斯，其作品深受母亲的影响，创作的小说大部分都发生在田纳西州。曾获得John P. Marquand First Novel Award，美国艺术和文学学会授予的奖金及古根海姆奖金。
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