A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Book ID/图书代码： 00200009B33962
English Summary/英文概要： Sally Goodchild is everything you’d expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist – independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo. After a passionate but uneasy romance, Sally’s life is turned upside down when she unexpectedly finds herself married, pregnant and living in London.
Married life in a foreign place is a far bigger adjustment than Sally and Tony could ever have imagined - and as their lives shift from freedom and adventure to responsibility and hard work, everyday problems soon spiral into nightmares. After the birth of their son, Sally finds herself trapped in a downward spiral over which she has little control, whilst Tony’s life returns to relative normality. Filled with resentment and unable to cope with the cards life has dealt her, Sally is shocked when the man she trusted above all others turns against her. As her world begins to fall down around her, Sally quickly realises she must fight before she loses everything.
In this authentic and compelling novel, Kennedy explores the misunderstandings that can occur when two people speak the same language but miss all the vital signs.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 薩利•古德查爾德是一位及其成功的37歲美國記者，她獨立、堅強、有野心，直到她在開羅出差時遇見英國國際記者托尼•霍布。他們共同經歷了一場熱烈又艱難的愛戀，隨後薩利發覺自己的生活被全部改變了，一個雷厲風行的女記者突然發現自己在倫敦已經結婚懷孕了。
在國外的婚姻生活要比薩利和托尼想像地要困難很多。他們已經失去了自由，而負擔也越來越重，每天瑣碎的生活和問題慢慢轉變成一場噩夢。兒子出生後，薩利發覺自己的生活和狀態每況愈下，而托尼的生活和事業卻慢慢恢復正常。她滿心怨氣、忍受著瑣碎生活的煎熬，最讓她震驚的是她最信任的男人竟然背叛她。就在她的世界即將倒塌的時候，她意識到她一定要在失去一切之前努力反抗。
在這個迷人的愛情故事中，甘迺迪探索了兩人說同一語言的人由於錯過了所有重點而產生的誤會。(Celia)
Awards/获奖情况：As it gathered pace... I found my heart beating faster. I cannot remember a more compulsive book... I am bowled over by the art of the novelist---Daily Telegraph
Kennedy knows how to keep the pages turning...A pacy, absorbing and intelligent story.---Elizabeth Buchan, The Times
Excellent...The pace is thriller-like, so cancel all engagements for the duration.---Good Housekeeping
Writing in the first person as a woman, [Kennedy] pulls off a bold imaginative transformation that I find enthralling and persuasive.---Jonathan Raban
His impressive achievement is... his narrator Sally, whose turbulent emotions he conveys with an unusual depth of understanding---Times Literary Supplement
“道格拉斯 甘迺迪已經成為英國和法國的暢銷小說家，他的《特殊關係》以前景無限的愛情故事開頭，卻以一場難分伯仲的舞臺劇結尾。他細膩地展現了產後憂鬱症這一重要話題。”——《華盛頓郵報》
“本書中甘迺迪最大的成功就是塑造了闡述者薩利，他用深層次的體諒傳達了她波濤洶湧的感情。”——《泰晤士報文學副刊》
“對為人母親的恐怖之處做了突出研究，成就了這場一級舞臺劇驚悚小說。”——《泰晤士報》
About the Author/作者介绍： 1976年從鮑登大學畢業後，他在都柏林的三一學院學習了一年。1977年他回到都柏林經營艾比劇院下“孔雀劇院”。28歲時，他辭掉劇院的工作，開始專注於寫作。為BBC寫了幾本廣播劇和舞臺劇後，他開始寫小說。第一本小說根據他在埃及旅行的經歷寫成了“Beyond the Pyramids”。隨後完成的“The Moment”和“Leaving the world”在2011年11月出版後便躍居法國暢銷榜單第一。至今為止，他出書10本，暢銷歐美22個國家市場。單本銷售達20萬左右。他的小說大多以歐洲社會和自然風景為背景寫成，在法國受到極高的褒獎。先後在2007年和2009年獲得法國藝術與文學騎士勳章和《費加羅報》文學大獎賽第一名。改編自“The Big Picture”的電影《全域》("L’homme qui voulait vivre sa vie”)，由法國王牌影星凱薩琳-德納芙主演，于2011年第八屆法國影展期間在中國四個城市巡迴展演，受到中國年輕人的喜愛。此外，他還為《星期日泰晤士報》、《星期日郵報》、《Esquire》和《GQ》等主流媒體寫專欄文章。
Douglas Kennedy’s novels have all been highly praised bestsellers. His work has been translated into sixteen languages and in 2006 he received the French decoration of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Born in Manhattan in 1955, he now lives in London and has two children.
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