NO! I DON’T WANT TO JOIN A BOOKCLUB: DIARY OF A SIXTIETH YEAR
Book ID/图书代码： 00200006B01551
English Summary/英文概要： A screamingly funny and poignant story about embracing life beyond middle age
Marie Sharp is heading toward sixty and is just fine with it. She’s already had plenty of excitement in her life: sex and drugs in the freewheeling sixties, career and children, marriage and divorce. Now she’s ready to settle into a quiet, blissfully boring routine. No Italian classes or gym memberships or bicycle trips across Europe, thank you very much! Marie just wants to put her feet up and “start doing old things.”
She’s even sworn off men! But as it turns out, life still has some surprises in store, the biggest of which is a new grandson on the way. What’s more, Archie, her old childhood crush, suddenly reenters her life, and her closest friend falls seriously ill. Armed with a biting sense of humor, Marie wrestles with a life that refuses to follow her plans—and may still offer more possibilities than she realizes.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部恰巧在瑪麗夏普步入60歲講述關於跨越中年擁抱生活非常有趣的和淒美的故事，故事主人公的生活已經有足夠的興奮的事物：藥物的濫用和性伴隨他步入六十歲的年頭，事業和孩子，結婚與離婚。現在她準備習慣安靜下來，充滿喜悅地去迎接枯燥的每一天。沒有義大利語課程或騎自行車旅行穿越歐洲的健身房會員資格，非常感謝！瑪麗只想踏踏實實做點“老年人做的事情”。
她甚至發誓不要男人！但結果證明，生活還是會給我們帶來一些驚奇，最大的孫子正在來的路上。而且，阿奇，她童年時的情人，突然間再次進入她的生活，以及她的密友身患嚴重的疾病。書中包含不少笑料，瑪麗正在拒絕她原先的生活規劃——而且她意識到生命中仍然充滿可能性。(sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：“[Ironside] has done her readers a wonderful service in giving us the fictional Marie Sharp.... No! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club is, in fact, a perfect choice for book clubs. It takes on the biggest issues—our lives, loves, deaths—in acerbic, tender, thoughtful ways. Perfect for clubs, perfect for (almost) everybody.”---The Washington Post
“Screamingly funny…reads like an AARP-issued Bridget Jones’ Diary….This is the kind of book you gobble up, then re-read so you can hoot out loud all over again.”---USA Today
“Marie’s wicked sense of humor makes this a fun read. . . . This novel is more than a light romp. Marie shows great heart and wisdom as she experiences joys and sorrows.”---The Herald Sun
“So funny and human, so full of cranky wisdom and plucky resistance to the ordinary ways of facing old age. I’m thinking of reading No! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club once a year from here on in to cheer myself up. If you’re over fifty, you should read it, too.”---The Buffalo News
About the Author/作者介绍： 佛吉尼亞艾恩賽德是一名記者，知心大姐，和作家，離婚後居住在倫敦西部。她有一個兒子和一個孫子。她是小說《你會克服它：喪親之痛的暴怒》和本書《不！我不想加入預定俱樂部》的作者 Virginia Ironside is a journalist, agony aunt, and author, divorced living in West London. She has one son and one grandson. She is the author of You’ll Get Over It: The Rage of Bereavement and the novel No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub (2006).
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