STILTSVILLE: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 14320010B34520
English Summary/英文概要： One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, 26-year-old Frances Ellerby discovers a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. For the Atlanta native, it’s the first time she’s been out on the open water, the first time she’s felt alive in months. Giddy with the freedom of this idyllic, foreign place, and enjoying her first taste of adventure, she meets the fair-haired Dennis DuVal, the careless yet lucky man with whom she will spend the next three decades.
Frances is seduced by Miami’s chaos and beauty, by the sun and sea and sky that Dennis calls home. Going against her cautious nature, she leaves her job and moves to Florida to start a life with Dennis. With a baby daughter and very little to call their own, surrounded by an intimate community of friends and relatives, Frances and Dennis set out on a decades-long journey. Over the years, they struggle with the vicissitudes of love and Florida’s weather, infidelity, parenthood, friendship, Hurricane Andrew, and debilitating illness—coming to terms, finally, with a life that doesn’t necessarily end happily-ever-after, but one which Frances wouldn’t trade for anything.
Susanna Daniel interweaves the tropical intensity, beauty, violence, and humanity of Miami as it comes of age with a modern yet enduring story of a marriage’s beginning, maturity, and heartbreaking demise.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1969年的夏天，26歲的Frances Ellerby快要結束自己的邁阿密之旅，在這個叫Stiltsville的地方，比斯坎灣中央的浮島上建有一系列建築。
第一次來到開闊的岸邊，她愛上了這個地方，岸上的房子，像是天際的星星，她能看到的只是大海。後來，她見到了房子的主人Dennis DuVal，他們就這樣愛上的對方。
Frances就這樣離開了家裡安靜，穩定的生活，搬到邁阿密和Dennis住在一起。不久她就取得了Dennis家人和朋友的信任。他們結婚了，還有了一個孩子。但婚後的生活並沒有想像的如此溫馨順利。他們的感情開始有裂痕，還要面對家這個複雜的“世界”。
Stiltsville本是這家人的綠洲，但現在它不再起作用。Frances只能思考要怎樣讓這個家重新有生活的熱情。在這個繁榮的熱帶雨林，Frances和Dennis為愛，佛羅里達的天氣，外在的誘惑、矛盾、失望糾結痛苦不已。就在Frances自認為她已經想到辦法了，但仍然無法改變家庭的情況。
Susanna Daniel 表現了婚姻開始階段雙方的成長，衝突和人性內涵。（Celia）
Awards/获奖情况：Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000527701)
★ 亞馬遜本月選書！
★ 《好賊》作者：「我愛上了她筆下的人物：丹尼斯和法蘭西斯。流轉於這兩個人之間的對話、節奏與情意是那麼地真實。但故事的背景設在佛羅里達，特別是在佛羅里達的棚屋區，這個場景設定讓這個故事更添魔力。」“這是本人物豐富，複雜的小說，寫得謹慎、精妙。”
——《書單》
“竭力推薦這本吸引人、雅致、有趣的小說！”
——《圖書報告》
“以意料不到的可愛方式描述常人的生活，是這本書的亮點！”——奧普拉網
“絕對是本好書。”——亞馬遜網
“年輕男子從屋子的邊緣潛入水中濺起的第一漂水說起，Stiltsville絕對是成功的故事書。”——美國筆會中心
Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010: It may be a sign of the times that many stories about marriage unfold on a stage of high emotional drama, where the sparks stop flying and start sparring, for better or worse. There may be catharsis in those kinds of stories, but there’s often little joy, which is what makes this quiet and tender debut so disarmingly good. Stiltsville is a story of a marriage that begins with serendipity --that holiest of relationship grails--one warm summer day in Miami. It’s 1969 when girl (Frances, the novel’s clear-eyed, guileless narrator) meets boy (Dennis, who in Frances’s estimation is "careless but lucky") at one of a copse of houses built on stilts in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. That such a place existed is incredible now, and in the scenes that reconstruct its peculiar beauty, Susanna Daniel ushers you into an exotic and unpredictable corner of the country. It’s a perfect place to fall in love, and Frances and Dennis do, without fanfare or pretense. Theirs is a love that almost instantly becomes constant and real, full of simple happiness that makes it possible to weather the storms that come. ---Anne Bartholomew
“I fell in love with Susanna Daniel’s characters, Dennis and Frances. The dialogue, the pacing, and the tenderness between this married couple is so authentic and true. But it’s the setting of Florida, and especially the place that is Stiltsville, that literally elevates this story to magic.”---Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief
“This soulful novel will inspire you to reflect on your own definitions of house, home, and what really makes a couple close.”---Redbook
“Set against the wild and changeable landscape of South Florida, Stiltsville is a wise and loving portrait of a marriage, written with keen insight into the ways two lives grow together over the years. This is a rare first novel. Susanna Daniel writes beautifully of matters of the heart.”---Jennifer Haigh, author of The Condition, Baker Towers, and Mrs. Kimble
“In this wise and luminous novel, Susanna Daniel does something truly rare: she creates characters so real that you feel they’ve entered the very room where you sit reading. Before you know it, they’ve also entered your heart, and are breaking it…. A work of tremendous maturity, empathy and humanity.”---Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion and Black and White
“A deeply engrossing tale of love, family, friendship, and motherhood, Stiltsville is both an elegantly crafted work of art and a great read. The love story effortlessly spans decades, and the characters are as real and vivid as the novel’s South Florida backdrop. Susanna Daniel is an extraordinary writer.”---Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep and American Wife
“I fell in love in the opening pages of Stiltsville. There was nothing I wanted more than to spend time in the company of these vivid characters and keep reading Susanna Daniel’s lovely, lucid prose.”---Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street
About the Author/作者介绍： 蘇珊娜‧丹尼爾出生於佛州的邁阿密，她的童年時光多是在家人位於邁阿密比斯坎灣的棚屋中度過。她畢業自哥倫比亞大學與愛荷華大學寫作班，並是威斯康辛創意寫作協會會員。目前居住在威斯康辛州。她的第一本小說
《Stiltsville》獲得的PEN/Bingham最佳新人獎，被選入2011年奧普拉夏季閱讀書單，成為2010年亞馬遜網最佳新書，2010年赫芬頓郵報最佳圖書，美國幫諾書店新作家獎。她的新書《海洋生物》將於2013夏季出版。
Susanna Daniel was born and raised in Miami, Florida, where she spent much of her childhood at her family’s stilt house in Biscayne Bay.
Her debut novel, Stiltsville, was awarded the PEN/Bingham prize for best debut work published in 2010. Stiltsville was also named a 2011 Summer Reading List pick by Oprah.com, a Best Debut of 2010 by Amazon.com, a Best Book of 2010 by the Huffington Post, and a Discover Great New Writers pick by Barnes & Noble.
Susanna’s second novel, SEA CREATURES, about a woman who ultimately must face the unthinkable choice between her husband and young son, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in the summer of 2013.
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