THE WIFE’S TALE

Book ID/图书代码： 12760011B46416

English Summary/英文概要： On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy--still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high school--to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary’s life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the bedroom to the refrigerator. But her husband’s disappearance startles her out of her inertia, and she begins a desperate search.

For the first time in her life, she boards a plane and flies across the country to find her lost husband. So used to hiding from the world, Mary finds that in the bright sun and broad vistas of California, she is forced to look up from the pavement. And what she finds fills her with inner strength she’s never felt before. Through it all, Mary not only finds kindred spirits, but reunites with a more intimate stranger no longer sequestered by fear and habit: herself.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一場關於探索自我，認識自我，並最終獲得自我救贖的旅程

故事開始是Mary Gooch結婚25周年結婚紀念日的前夕，而Mary正在等待丈夫Jimmy的歸來。不過Mary等的人並不僅僅是他。她等待著一個可以接受她的母親，等待可以有自己的孩子，等待一種全新的生活。
在她等待Jimmy的時候，夜晚已悄悄離去，晨光開始普照大地— 很明顯，丈夫是夜不歸宿。郵筒裡的那封信證實了Mary最深的恐懼，而此時她必須獨自做出一個艱難的抉擇。她應該擺脫內心的束縛，拯救自己的婚姻嗎？或者是家庭的引力以及她日常活動的可預測性太過於強大以致於無法抵擋嗎？
Mary人生當中第一次毅然決定乘坐飛機去遙遠的加州。她飛遍了整個國家，瘋狂地尋找自己的丈夫。從前可以讓她隱蔽自己的衣服、婚姻，還有家庭，此刻全部都煙消雲散了…很快，Mary就發現加州明亮的太陽以及寬闊的視野迫使她不在埋頭行走，也不再孤獨等待，而是開始全新的生活。
透過這一場旅程，Mary不僅找到了志趣相投的朋友，而且重新結識了一個親密無間，但一直被恐懼和習慣隔絕的陌生人—她自己。(兼职翻译-XMM & Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：• A New York Times Editor’s Choice, Apr 2010
• A More Magazine Best Book of the Month, February 2010
• An Amazon August 2009 Best Read of the Month

PRAISE FOR LORI LANSEN’S THE WIFE’S TALE
“Sensitive but deliciously comic…. Lansens has more than a few tales worth telling.”---THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Lansens’ portrait of a woman who hides behind the Kenmore as protection from life’s heartache is earthy and primal in its pain. Yet Lansens doesn’t resort to an overnight makeover to save Mary. Instead, our heroine uncovers a hidden strength she had all along. Those who loved The Girls will be pleased that Lansens is back. Highly recommended.”---LIBRARY JOURNAL, stared review

“Lansens’ clear prose unveils the connection between a body weighed down by flesh and a spirit smothered by loneliness. Mary’s odyssey of heartache and hope is not so much about finding her husband as it is about rediscovering herself.”---PEOPLE

“[Mary is] a wonderful character, and Lansens’ handling of her eventual transformation into someone capable of compassion and acceptance is handled with a light but assured touch”---PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Lori Lansens, best-selling author of The Girls, structures The Wife’s Tale as the story of a damaged heroine on a quest. The trick is that (as in any good quest story) the real object of the search isn’t what the searcher thinks it is. … [A] fast-moving story and Mary’s gradual metamorphosis… rings true.”---BOOKPAGE

“Lansens writes with acute insight… fully immersing readers in her protagonist’s struggle to find a new and better self.”---BOOKLIST

“Like short-story queen Alice Munro, to whom she is often compared, Lansens demonstrates a singular gift for discerning both the ordinary and the extraordinary in small-town life and small-town people.”---WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

Producers Ginette Petit and Nathalie Bissonnette of Les Films Outsiders of Montreal have purchased an option on Lori Lansens’ 2010 novel THE WIFE’S TALE, which follows Mary Gooch – morbidly obese and living in denial – as she pursues her husband across the country. Outsiders plans to make it their next film.

THE WIFE’S TALE has been released in eleven territories.

Les Films Outsiders has just won three awards for its most recent movie at the Quebec Cinema Awards. IL PLEUVAIT

DES OISEAUX/AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN won Best Actor, Best Actress, and the Public Choice Award. It also won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role at the Canadian Screen Awards, and the Dragon Award for Best International Film at the Göteborg Film Festival. It was featured at several festivals, including TIFF.

About the Author/作者介绍： Lori Lansens was born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, a small Canadian town with a remarkable history and a collection of eccentric characters, which became the setting for her first two bestselling novels. Living with her family in southern California now, she could not resist the pull of her fictitious ’Baldoon County’ when she set out to write The Wife’s Tale. She took the journey, along with her main character, from Canada to the Pacific Coast of America, where she enjoys the sunshine, and has learned a thing or two about transformation.
Lori Lansens曾是一位功成名就的劇作家。2002年，Lori出版第一本小說Rush Home Road，該書被翻譯成8種語言並在11個國家出版發行，在全世界引起了轟動廣泛的好評。此書入圍了大英國協作家大獎最佳新人作品（Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book）和羅格斯作家信任小說獎（Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize）候選名單，以及2002年全球年度優秀作品100強和國家暢銷書排行榜。。她的第二本部小說The Girls獲得2006年Richard & Judy節目評選的“年度最佳小說”（該書在英國的銷售量超過300，000冊），併入圍奧林威治寬頻小說獎的決賽名單。

Format:电子手稿

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD US: Little, Brown & Co., 2010 UK: Virago, 2010 Canada: Knopf, 2009 Italy: Mondadori Netherlands: De Bezige Bij Brazil (Portuguese): Bertrand Brasil French-Canada: Editions Alto Audio: Brilliance Audio Poland: W.A.B. US Large Print: Center Point Publishers Turkey: Artemis Yayinlari Norway: Juritzen Forlag French world rights (excl. Canada): Editions l’Archipel Film: Les Films Outsiders Inc.

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