KEEPER & KID

Book ID/图书代码： 06120008B20055

English Summary/英文概要： ’Keeper and Kid is a marvel. I dare you. Open this book and try to put it down.’ ---Ann Hood, author of The Knitting RoomEight years ago, James Keeper fell in love with his upstairs neighbor in Boston, a sassy pastry chef with gray eyes and a fierce attitude. They got married, found a dog, and shopped for cilantro. But conflicting schedules and a real estate deal gone bad took its toll on the twenty-somethings in love. One divorce later, the hand-me-down chairs were separated, the potato masher custody settled, and Keeper moved to Providence to work with his best friend selling antiques at a quirky shop called Love and Death.A new job, a new love, and a new life now in place, Keeper is in a comfortable situation. Business is steady, Leah (the new love) is intriguing and passionate, and Keeper’s friends always turn up for Sunday evening Card Night. But one phone call from his former mother-in-law changes everything. And so days later, Keeper comes away with a son he never knew he had, and life all of a sudden takes on a new meaning.Leo, the precocious three-year-old who sports Keeper’s square chin, is more than a handful---he eats only round foods, refuses to bathe, thinks he’s a bear, and refers to Leah as ’that man.’ For a guy who never thought he’d be a parent, Keeper is thrown headfirst into fatherhood---and has no idea what to do. As Keeper and Leo adjust to the shock of each other and their suddenly very different lives, Keeper begins to let the people in his life in, in turns strange and heartwarming, funny and painful. But some, like Leah, aren’t so eager for change.In this humorous and poignant novel, Edward Hardy explores the depths of modern love, parenthood, and compromise. Keeper and Kid is the story of how a normal guy receives an unexpected gift and in turn must learn to ask more of others and himself. A coming-of-age story for the guy who thought he had already grown up, Keeper and Kid is a sharp and witty account of what we do for love. Advance Praise for Keeper and Kid’A fine, fetching novel with a good heart. Keeper is nimble and affecting, a tribute to the author’s endless comic inventiveness.’---Stewart O’Nan, author of The Good Wife’At once immensely engaging and about the things that matter most: how we love, how we move on, how the past moves with us. Lovely, wise, and surprising.’---Elizabeth Graver, author of The Honey Thief’Ed Hardy’s voice in Keeper and Kid grabs you and won’t let you go until the very last page. Full of local color, bittersweet characters, and a story we can all relate to---the day your past arrives on the doorstep of your present life.’---Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Room

Chinese Summary/中文概要： James Keeper與好友一同開設古董店” Love and Death”，三十多歲的單身生活看似輕鬆美好。然而當他接到一通來自他前岳母的電話，頓時一切天翻地覆了。原來他自己有個從來不知道的親生小孩。就這樣，他要與早熟的三歲Leo開始展開新的生活。Leo 是個早熟而古怪的小孩，總是有奇怪的堅持例如只吃圓形的食物、不喜歡洗澡、覺得自己是熊等等。有趣的父子生活就此展開。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Edward Hardy is the author of the novel Geyser Life, grew up in Ithaca, N.Y., has an MFA from Cornell, and has published stories in Ploughshares, GQ, Witness, The Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and other literary magazines. His work has been included in The Best American Short Stories.
Edward Hardy曾當過報紙記者與編輯。
他的短篇小說曾於Ploughshares, GQ, Epoch, The New England Review, Witness, Prairie Schooner, Ascent, Boulevard, Yankee and The Quarterly等許多刊物發表。其短篇小說曾收錄於《美國最佳短篇小說》(The Best American Short Stories)。

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