BELLY DANCING FOR BEGINNERS

Book ID/图书代码： 12774009B32641

English Summary/英文概要： Gayle and Sonya are complete opposites: one reserved and cautious, the other confident and outspoken. But their lives will be turned upside down when they impulsively join a belly dancing class. Marissa their teacher is sixty,sexy and very much her own person, and as Gayle and Sonya learn about the origins and meaning of the dance, much more than muscle tones change. A warm-hearted, moving and often outright funny storyof what can happen when women, and the men in their lives, are brave enough to reveal who they really are.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Gayle和Sonya是完全相反的兩個人。一個保守謹慎，另一個自信直率。就在他們一時衝動加入一個肚皮舞培訓班後，他們的生活完全顛倒了。她們的老師Marissa是位已經60歲，性感、獨立的女性，當她告訴這兩個女孩，肚皮舞除了身姿搖擺外的起源和意義時，她們對生活將有更多瞭解。透過這個故事，你會瞭解熱情的女人們會如何與周圍的朋友和男人們發現真實的自己。(Celia)

Awards/获奖情况：Rights sold: ANZ Pan Macmillan

About the Author/作者介绍： Liz Byrski出生在英國，但從1981年開始就住在澳大利亞西部。她擔任自由記者數年，寫了大量非文學書籍，在ABC廣播電臺做播報員，還是西澳政府大使顧問。50歲後，由於時尚文化中缺少以中老年人為主角的元素，她開始以成熟女人為主題寫小說。比如《Gang of Four》、《Food, Sex and Money》、《Belly Dancing for Beginners》、《Trip of a Lifetime》和《Bad Behaviour》。她現在還在柯廷科技大學做專業寫作講師。

Liz Byrski was born and brought up in England and has lived in Western Australia since 1981. She is the author of a number of nonfiction books and has worked as a freelance journalist, a broadcaster with ABC Radio and an adviser to a minister in the WA Government. In her late fifties, in despair at the absence of realistic and interesting representations of older women in popular culture, she began writing novels that feature older characters. She is the author of Gang of Four; Food, Sex and Money; Belly Dancing for Beginners; Trip of a Lifetime and Bad Behaviour and lectures in professional writing at Curtin University of Technology.

Format:HARDCOVER

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