THE WIDOWER’S TALE: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 02330010B37168
English Summary/英文概要： A rich and suspenseful novel from the award-winning author of Three Junes and I See You Everywhere.
In a quirky farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling enjoys a vigorous but mostly solitary life—until, in a complex scheme to help his oldest daughter through a crisis, he allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn. The abrupt transformation of Percy’s rural refuge into a lively, youthful community compels him to reexamine the choices he’s made since his wife’s death, three decades ago, in a senseless accident that haunts him still. No longer can he remain aloof from his neighbors, his two grown daughters, or, to his shock, the precarious joy of falling in love.
Meanwhile, Percy’s beloved grandson Robert, a premed student at Harvard, joins his visionary roommate in a series of environmental “actions” targeting the well-to-do; they begin as pranks but escalate insidiously, with dire consequences for Robert’s family and the people around them, including a Guatemalan gardener and a gay preschool teacher, whose lives intersect fatefully with those of the Darlings. With equal parts affection and satire, Julia Glass spins a powerful tale about the multigenerational loyalties, rivalries, and secrets of a family, inhabitants of a complacently prosperous world where no one is immune to unexpected change. Yet again, she plumbs the human heart brilliantly, dramatically, and movingly.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《三个六月天》（Three Junes）和《无处不相逢》（I See You Everywhere）获奖作家全新情节丰富悬疑紧张的力作。
在波斯顿之外一座古古怪怪的农场里，住着一位70岁高龄的老妇人波希•达令（Percy Darling），生活虽孤独倒也生机勃勃，直到为了帮助她的大女儿度过危机涉入一个复杂的计划，他答应在谷场作幼儿园。突如其来的改变令波希的乡村庇所生龙活虎，让他不由自主思量太太死后的决定正确与否。30年了，那场毫无感觉的事故依然萦绕在其心头。他不再对邻居和两个成年女儿冷漠相待，更令他震惊的是，还有不确定的爱情。
与此同时，波希的外孙罗伯特（Robert），哈佛大学医学院预科的学生，参与了他室友一系列以富裕人士为目标的环境行动。他们一开始是恶作剧的打算，但是逐渐不知不觉将目标锁定了罗伯特的家人以及周围的朋友，包括花匠以及幼儿园同性恋老师，碰巧住到了这户人家。茱莉亚运用同等的感情和讽刺，编织了一个强有力的故事，内容涉及多代人的忠诚、报复、家庭秘密以及对外面繁华世界无所适从无法适应变化的一群人。作者再一次抓住了人心，感人肺腑，真情十足。(XJJ)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 茱莉亚•格拉斯（JULIA GLASS）是《三个六月天》（ Three Junes）的作者，此作品曾获国家图书奖；还写有《全世界》（The Whole World Over）以及《无处不相逢》（I See You Everywhere），荣获伯明翰大学约翰歌德纳小说图书奖。她的短篇小说获奖很多，个人文集也广泛收录成册。她住在马萨诸塞州。 JULIA GLASS is the author of Three Junes, winner of the National Book Award; The Whole World Over; and I See You Everywhere, winner of the Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her short fiction has also won several prizes, and her personal essays have been widely anthologized. She lives in Massachusetts.
Format:电子手稿
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