PAY THE PIPER: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 06000015B79291
English Summary/英文概要： The electrifying story of a woman whose search for love and fulfillment brings her to the very brink of disaster.
Laurel Wynn is haunted by her insecurities. Raised in a backwater Mississippi town by an alcoholic mother, she is now the author of largely ignored novels and the unhappy wife and mother of an upper-middle-class New England family. She continues to hold out hope, however, that the right kind of love might change everything for the better. When she begins a correspondence with Hal MacDonald, a wealthy Mississippian incarcerated for the accidental murder of his stepson, Laurel comes to believe that she has finally found a partner passionate and charismatic enough to make her feel whole.
Enthralled by Hal’s ardent letters and their brief jailhouse meetings, Laurel leaves her husband and child to move back to the South. But when Hal is finally released, the fantasy romance she imagined quickly turns into a nightmare. At fifty-three years old, Laurel is in life-threatening danger and must find within herself the courage and the determination not just to survive, but to set herself free once and for all.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Laurel Wynn 出生于密西西比的一个小镇，妈妈是个酒鬼。她则成为了一个不快乐的妻子，写了许多不受关注的小说。但她始终怀抱希望，希望找到最好的爱让自己的生活变得更好。她和一个因被控杀害自己继子而入狱的男人Hal MacDonald 的通信改变了自己的人生轨迹。为了Hal，她抛弃了家庭和孩子搬去了南方。但Hal出狱之后，她所幻想的浪漫关系瞬间破灭，她的生活跌入了地狱。53岁的Laurel必须依靠自己，鼓起勇气，下定决心逃离所面临的危险，最终获得自由。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：“作者利用简单的素材，充分发挥自己讲故事的才能，深刻洞见各种心理机制，挖掘内心情感。最重要的是，她拥有打动人心的天赋。”——Robert Penn Warren “To her simple materials, Joan Williams brings the art of the born storyteller, subtlety of psychological insight, and a deep clarity of feeling. She has, in fact, the last and greatest gift: to move the heart.” —Robert Penn Warren
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。
Format:HARDCOVER
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