THE LIFE OF GLASS
Book ID/图书代码： 06840008B30117
English Summary/英文概要： Before he died, Melissa’s father told her about the stars. The brightest ones, he told her, weren’t always the most beautiful—that if people took the time to look at the smaller stars, if they looked with a telescope at the true essence of the star, they would find real beauty.
But even though Melissa knows that beauty isn’t only skin deep, the people around her don’t seem to feel that way. There’s her gorgeous sister Ashley, who will barely acknowledge Melissa at school. There’s her best friend Ryan, who may be falling in love with the sophisticated Courtney instead of herself. And then there’s Melissa’s mother, who’s dating someone new, someone who Melissa knows will never be able to replace her father.
To make sure she doesn’t lose her father completely, Melissa spends her time trying to piece together the last of his secrets and completing a journal her father began—one about love, relationships and the remarkable ways people find one another. But when tragedy strikes, Melissa has to start living and loving in the present, and realizes that being beautiful on the outside doesn’t mean you can’t be beautiful on the inside, too.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 父親驟逝，帶給她的不是悲傷，
而是尋找生命答案的開始—
透過完成父親的遺作，她學會了如何去愛...。
梅麗莎的父親過世前，曾告訴她關於星星的故事：最明亮的星星，並不總是最美麗的；如果人們願意花時間觀察其他較小的星星，透過望遠鏡觀觀星星真正的本質，他們會發現真正的美麗。
即使梅麗莎知道，真正的美不能光看表面，她周圍的人似乎卻不知道：在學校裡，她美麗的妹妹愛詩麗，承認她們的關係時，態度總是很勉強；她最好的朋友瑞安，愛的人是克爾妮，而不是她自己；還有，梅麗莎的母親新的約會對象…在梅麗莎的心裡，那人永遠無法取代她親愛的爸爸。
為了與逝去的父親更親近，她試圖拼湊出父親最後的一個秘密，並完成了他父親著手撰寫的，一本關於愛和人與人之間的聯繫，和人們如何了解對方的期刊。但是，當悲劇發生時，梅麗莎開始學習如何生活，且更加明瞭，一個人外在的美麗並不等於內在品格的高尚。(SL)
Awards/获奖情况：美國出版社將於2010年2月出版﹗
Praise for THE SEPTEMBER SISTERS:
“The dailogue, clipped and intense, leaves room for readers to recognize their own experiences . . .What will hold readers, along with the suspense of the whodunit, is the honesty of the sibling story.”---Booklist
“Expressive, eloquently rendered comingofage novel...pitchperfect narration and spoton depiction of emotional turmoil...will remind readers of the exquisite fragility of adolescence.”- BookPage
“Characters are wellrealized... Melissa’s firstperson narrative rings true. Pleasantly satisfying.” -Kirkus
About the Author/作者介绍： 吉利安康托爾從賓夕法尼亞州立大學和亞利桑那大學取得英語學士學位，在那裡她獲得了國家賈維茨獎學金。她的第一部小說，《九月姐妹》(THE SEPTEMBER SISTERS)，被出版人週刊(Publishers Weekly)喻為「令人難忘」且「栩栩如生」。她的第二部小說《玻璃人生》(THE LIFE OF GLASS)，將在2010年2月在HarperCollins出版。
她與丈夫和兩個兒子住在亞利桑那州。作者部落格：http://www.jilliancantor.com
Format:电子手稿
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