A MOUTH LIKE YOURS
Book ID/图书代码： 03830506B03840
English Summary/英文概要： A brutally honest novel about love and illusion from the author of Caught Inside
Cassius Harper, ambivalent child of the seventies, is leading a modest and respectable life in San Francisco’s flush nineties: he has a promising doctoral thesis, a doting new lover, the company of old friends and adoring parents, even a rent-controlled apartment by the beach where he’s surfed all his life. So why the upwelling of nameless dread? Why the regret after cocktail parties and the road rage and, worst of all, the certainty that he is somehow a stranger to himself? Harper has always seen transformative love as the heart’s salvation; but he’s found his elusive ideal only twice, with miserable consequences. A Mouth Like Yours tells of a third and grand collision, with the vulnerable, volatile, and addictive Joanie Artois.
So quickly does Harper lose himself in Joanie, so thoroughly does she colonize his heart, that he sets out to understand why, exactly, love always unmans him this way. Exploring what carnal love can do for us and what it cannot, A Mouth Like Yours is a poignant statement about the growing pains of a generation.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Cassius Harper是七十年代出生的典型的矛盾心理孩子，他生活在旧金山富庶的九十年代里，过着体面、舒适、惬意的日子。 他写了篇颇有前途的博士论文，有一位很溺爱他的新情人，还有一帮老朋友和深爱他的父母陪伴在身旁，甚至还有一间临近海滩的租金受管制的公寓，他可以在那里的海滩冲一辈子的浪。那么，难以名状的恐惧是从哪里涌动出来的呢？ 怎么会在鸡尾酒派对后留下如此遗憾，“路上的愤怒”（一词则形容在交通阻塞情况下开车压力与挫折所导致的愤怒情绪）又是因何而起的呢，更糟糕的是，他不知怎得居然完全不认识自己了。Harper 一直以来都觉得爱情具有改造力，它可以拯救人的心灵，但他只有两次实现了他那另人琢磨不透的理想，而结果皆是可悲的。《和你一样的嘴》讲述了Harper与脆弱、易变、和吸毒成隐的Joanie Artois的第三次冲撞，这也是重大的一次。Harper 闪电般地爱上了Joanie，并被她彻彻底底地征服了，而他爱上Joanie的速度之快、爱的程度之深，让Harper都开始明白了为什么爱情竟可以如此地软弱他。《和你一样的嘴》探讨了情爱的正反两方面， 是一代人成长烦恼的辛酸宣言。Daniel Duane 曾写过《困在其中：冲浪者加州海岸一年生活》、《寻找妈妈》。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Daniel Duane is the author of Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast (NPP, 1996) and Looking for Mo (FSG, 1998). He lives in San Francisco
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