THE KNITTING CIRCLE: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 02330006B07769

English Summary/英文概要： After the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, as a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days. The women welcome her, each teaching Mary a new knitting technique and, as they do, revealing their own personal stories of loss, love, and hope. Eventually Mary is able to tell her own story of grief and in so doing reclaims her love for her husband, faces the hard truths about her relationship with her mother, and finds the spark of life again.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這部關於友誼和救贖的小說保留了《編織戀愛夢》（Make an American Quilt）和《喜福會》（The Joy Luck Club）的精神風貌。
Mary Baxter在突然面臨喪女之痛後，加入了羅德島普一編織團體以填補空虛孤獨的時日，沒想過這將改變她的生活。儘管瑪麗不願意對他們敞開心扉，Alice、Scarlet、Lulu、Beth、Harriet、Ellen他們還是歡迎她加入他們的編織圈。他們各自教瑪麗一種新的編織技術，並且告訴她自己關於失去、愛情和希望的故事。他們花大量時間一起編織一起聊天，最終Mary吐露了自己的悲傷往事，找回了對丈夫的愛，勇敢面對了她和自己母親的關係，重新找到了生活的熱情火花。(兼职翻译-XJJ & Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：即將由HBO翻拍成電影，並由美國當紅女星凱薩琳海格Katherine Heigl擔綱演出書中的母親一角。
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Rights sold:
Avon (UK),
Archipel (The Netherlands),
Heyne (Germany),
Damm (Norway),
Planeta (world Spanish)

Reviews:
“A heartbreaker.”---Vanity Fair

“I know how unlikely it sounds that I closed THE KNITTING CIRCLE feeling uplifted, even cleansed. I felt as if I were seeing with fresh eyes, ready to forgive old hurts and entertain new thoughts. What a gift for Ann Hood, who suffered a loss nearly identical to Mary Baxter’s, to have made of her grief.”---Newsday

“A wonderfully simple book about something complicated: the nearly unendurable process of enduring after a great loss.”---Washington Post

“The beautiful language and convincing characters make [THE KNITTING CIRCLE] a worthwhile read…. Recommended for most libraries-this book will appeal to Oprah readers.”---LJ

“The strength of the writing is in the painfully realistic portrayal of the stages of mourning, and though there’s a lot of knitting, both actual and metaphorical, the terminology’s simple enough for nonknitters to follow and doesn’t distract from the quick pace of the narrative.”---PW

“[Hood’s] attention to craft and her experience as a novelist – and journalist – makes for an intelligent, moving read in which knitting is the tie that binds these women together and helps them to heal. Hood also brings her personal experience to the novel and transforms a life-changing event into art.”---Pages Magazine

“Ann Hood has written seven previous novels, and it shows in her strong writing and Mary’s precisely rendered mourning…. THE KNITTING CIRCLE is to THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB by Kate Jacobs what a Fair Isle cardigan is to a polyester sweater on special at Marshall’s…. By comparison, Hood’s meditation on mourning is all the more striking.”---Christian Science Monitor

“Hood’s words… pull you along, like a knitting pattern, one mesmerizing, settling click at a time, stitch by stitch, row by row, until you find yourself with something solid and real, whether a sweater or a new-found solace about what can come out on the other end of grief. Hood has said knitting saved her life when she lost her 5-year-old daughter, Grace, to a sudden illness in 2002. We’re lucky that needles and yarn mended her back to writing and words and a novel such as this.”---Oregonian

“Emotionally charged.”---Vogue Knitting

About the Author/作者介绍： Ann Hood is the author of seven novels and a short-story collection, An Ornithologist’s Guide to Life. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. http://www.annhood.us/
安·伍德（Ann Hood）著有7本小說和一部短篇小說集《鳥類學家的生活導向》（An Ornithologist’s Guide to Life.）。她目前住在羅德島。

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

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