UNDRESSING THE MOON: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 14780010B39373

English Summary/英文概要： Dark and compassionate, graceful yet raw, Undressing the Moon explores the seams between childhood and adulthood, between love and loss… At thirty, Piper Kincaid feels too young to be dying. Cancer has eaten away her strength; she’d be alone but for a childhood friend who’s come home by chance. Yet with all the questions of her future before her, she’s adrift in the past, remembering the fateful summer she turned fourteen and her life changed forever.

Her nervous father’s job search seemed stalled for good, as he hung around the house watching her mother’s every move. What he and Piper had both dreaded at last came to pass: Her restless, artistic mother, who smelled of lilacs and showed Piper beauty, finally left.

With no one to rely on, Piper struggled to hold on to what was important. She had a brother who loved her and a teacher enthralled with her potential. But her mother’s absence, her father’s distance, and a volatile secret threatened her delicate balance.

Now Piper is once again left with the jagged pieces of a shattered life. If she is ever going to put herself back together, she’ll have to begin with the summer that broke them all...

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 憂鬱的和憐憫的，優雅而陰冷的，“Undressing the Moon/皎潔的月光”探究了童年時光和成人世界的之間愛與失之間的縫隙，…… 三十歲的Piper Kincaid（派珀•金凱）感覺自己還太過年輕，不像是要到死的時候，癌症已經開始吞噬著她的體力；她感到自己孤身一人，要不是來自家鄉的童年好友偶然回家路過看望。但擺在她眼前未來所有的問題，她漂泊的過去，在即將十四歲時她那記憶猶新的災難性的夏季，她的人生從此發生了改變。她的神經質父親的工作一直不見好轉，因此他每日無所事事的看著母親的一舉一動。最後他和派珀都得到了可怕的應證：她的不安，附有藝術氣質的，散發著紫丁花香的母親，最終離開了她。從此她無依無靠，派珀努力堅持著抓住對她最重要的東西。她曾擁有一個愛她的兄長和被她潛質所吸引住的一位老師。但母親的消失，父親的疏離，和一個不确定的秘密微妙地威脅著她的平衡。現在派珀再次陷入了支離破碎的生活。如果她想要使自己重新振作起來，她將不得不從那年的夏季開始重新修復……(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：評論

“一部抒情的，細膩的感人的故事。”——出版人週刊
“Undressing the Moon beautifully elucidates the human capacity to maintain grace under unrelenting fire.”---Los Angeles Times

"A lyrical, delicately affecting tale"---Publishers Weekly

Piper Kincaid is 30 years old and has already endured three years of treatment for breast cancer. As she considers life with metastatic breast disease, she also returns to the year she was 14, when her mother left and she came to understand how lives get broken. In Greenwood’s third novel (after Breathing Water and Nearer Than the Sky), chapters alternate between Piper’s story today and 16 years earlier. Her mother collected broken glass and created beautiful pieces of art, but she couldn’t live with her husband’s fears of losing her. She managed to get away, leaving Piper and her older brother, Quinn, with their father, who eventually found a new girlfriend and ostensibly moved out. How Piper grew up that year without either parent, how she and her best friend, Becca, discovered performing, and how she became aware of the neediness and cruelty of others intersects with Piper’s cancer ordeal. Greenwood uses glass to represent both beauty and baseness, creation and destruction, and life and death. This beautiful story, eloquently told, demands attention. Highly recommended. Bette-Lee Fox, "Library Journal"

About the Author/作者介绍： T. Greenwood（T.格林伍德）是六部小說的作者。她曾被授予Sherwood Anderson Foundation （舍伍德 安德森基金會），（美國）全國藝術基金會的嘉獎，近期又受到馬里蘭國家藝術理事會的嘉獎。《Two Rivers/兩河平原》在去年的聖地牙哥圖書獎被譽為最佳通俗小說。她的另四部小說一直是BookSense （書商協會）76/獨立協會的首選；《THIS GLITTERING WORLD/這個明亮的世界》是2011年1月的選集，她的第七部小說《GRACE/格蕾絲》將在2012年四月出版發行。
她同時在加利福尼亞聖地牙哥分校的推廣計畫部和流行聲樂部教授創意寫作。她和丈夫，Patrick（派翠克），以及兩個女兒住在加州聖地牙哥。她還是個攝影愛好者。
你可以在她的個人網站上瞭解關於T. Greenwood（T.格林伍德）的更多資訊：http://www.tgreenwood.com 和她的個人博客：
http://www.mermama.blogspot.com & http://www.ephemerafiles.blogspot.com
T. Greenwood is the author of Breathing Water, Nearer Than the Sky, and Undressing the Moon, the latter two both Booksense 76 picks. She has received grants from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and, most recently, the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She lives with her husband and their two daughters in the D.C. area, where she is also an aspiring fine arts photographer.

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