STATE OF THE UNION
Book ID/图书代码： 00200005B11658
English Summary/英文概要： Douglas Kennedy’s riveting new novel bears his trademark genius for writing serious popular fiction.
Hannah Buchan leads an orderly life in a small town in Maine — a schoolteacher, married to a doctor, with two grown up children. However, her past conceals a dark secret. Thirty years ago she had a brief, dangerous fling with Tobias Judson, a high profile student activist, which she had reconciled to that internal, off-limits attic room marked “Ancient History.” But when Tobias suddenly pops up out of nowhere with a book about his radical years, her life goes into free-fall. And before she knows it, Hannah discovers that a long-ago transgression is never really forgotten.
Set amid two wildly contrasting periods of recent American life — the militant 60s and 70s, and the new-found conservatism of today — State of the Union is a remarkable portrait of one woman’s attempts to find her own way in the shifting political currents of her time. But it is also an intriguing portrait of the complexities of a long marriage, the ongoing guilt of parenthood, the perpetual tension between familial responsibility and personal freedom, and the divisive debate between liberal and conservative values that so engulfs the United States today.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 道格拉斯 甘迺迪 最新的精彩小說帶上了他特有的色彩，在暢銷小說中染上了嚴肅的氣氛。
漢娜 布哈在緬因州的小鎮裡過著平靜的生活，她自己是學校教師，丈夫是一位醫生，有兩個剛成年的孩子。這樣普通老實的人卻有著不為人知的過往。30年前，他與一個高調的學生運動者Tobias Judson有過一段風流史。這段激情的歲月被她埋藏於心裡的一個被稱作“歷史”的角落。但就在此時，Tobias Judson卻突然出現在公眾面前，還帶來了一本描寫他那段“激進歲月”故事的書。漢娜的生活突然失控，其實，她不知道，過去的過失很難忘卻。
本書以美國兩個完全不同的歲月，激進的六七十年代和保守的現代。《State of the Union》描寫了女人如何在政治動盪的歲月中找到自己的生活軌跡。故事還表現了一段漫長婚姻的複雜，家庭責任和個人自由之間無法解決的緊張關係，還有仍然籠罩美國社會的兩大價值觀之間的衝突：自由主義和保守主義。（Celia）
Awards/获奖情况：Domestic ennui, sociopolitical commentary, and infidelity are at the center of this nicely paced if sometimes overheated family drama from Kennedy (A Special Relationship). In 1969, 18-year-old Hannah Latham’s rebellion against her parents—famous radical activist father, mentally unwell painter mother—is to shoot for the simple life by marrying medical student Dan Buchan, getting pregnant, and moving to rural Maine. Before she knows it, she’s carved out an unexciting life as a part-time librarian and part-time housewife—until Tobias Judson, an acquaintance of her father with Weather Underground ties, comes knocking on her door. Fast forward to 2003: Hannah is a schoolteacher; her grown daughter flips out and disappears; her college best friend and sole confidante is dying of cancer; and decisions she made 30 years earlier come hurtling forward to again put into question what kind of life she really wants for herself. While the characters are stock and the points of conflict routinely overblown, Kennedy’s emotionally charged, reader-friendly tale of a woman on the verge will please his fans. (Mar.) ---From Publishers Weekly
他寫黑色驚悚小說，又解析人的內心自由與社會束縛之间的战争
他寫成人愛情故事，又挖掘道德与人欲之間的衝突
全球翻譯成22種語言，
2007年獲得了法國藝術與文學騎士勳章
2009年獲得《費加羅報》文學大獎賽第一名
好萊塢代理人手一本嚴肅小說
在法國的銷售量平均每本達到20萬！大眾市場銷售量達35萬！
常居法國、韓國、英國、美國暢銷榜單首位!
About the Author/作者介绍： 1976年從鮑登大學畢業後，他在都柏林的三一學院學習了一年。1977年他回到都柏林經營艾比劇院下“孔雀劇院”。28歲時，他辭掉劇院的工作，開始專注於寫作。為BBC寫了幾本廣播劇和舞臺劇後，他開始寫小說。第一本小說根據他在埃及旅行的經歷寫成了“Beyond the Pyramids”。隨後完成的“The Moment”和“Leaving the world”在2011年11月出版後便躍居法國暢銷榜單第一。至今為止，他出書10本，暢銷歐美22個國家市場。單本銷售達20萬左右。他的小說大多以歐洲社會和自然風景為背景寫成，在法國受到極高的褒獎。先後在2007年和2009年獲得法國藝術與文學騎士勳章和《費加羅報》文學大獎賽第一名。改編自“The Big Picture”的電影《全域》("L’homme qui voulait vivre sa vie”)，由法國王牌影星凱薩琳-德納芙主演，于2011年第八屆法國影展期間在中國四個城市巡迴展演，受到中國年輕人的喜愛。此外，他還為《星期日泰晤士報》、《星期日郵報》、《Esquire》和《GQ》等主流媒體寫專欄文章。
Douglas Kennedy’s novels have all been highly praised bestsellers. His work has been translated into sixteen languages and in 2006 he received the French decoration of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Born in Manhattan in 1955, he now lives in London and has two children.
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