WE ONLY KNOW SO MUCH
Book ID/图书代码： 06840011B48484
English Summary/英文概要： The Copelands are a family in crisis. The lives of each family member, from nine-year-old to ninety-eight-year-old, seem to be falling apart. And when you mix all these personal crises together, as only a dysfunctional family can, chaos will reign. Jean, the mother of the household, is trying to cope with the suicide of her secret lover. Her husband Gordan is preoccupied by his certainty that he is slowly losing his most prized asset, his mind. Their nineteen-year-old daughter, Priscilla, has a bad attitude and has found herself at a paralyzing crossroads in her career, despite the caveat that she has never had a career. She is determined to become a reality star, but she can’t quite figure out how to jump start it. Otis, the nine-year-old son, is falling in love for the first time. When he seeks advice from his mother, Jean is distracted by her own problems and confides disturbing truths about love that don’t help him at all—rather, they may well drive him to therapy in ten or twenty years. Theodore, the grandfather, has Parkinson’s, and the family vacillates between attempting to deal with it and ignore it. Finally, ninety-eight year old great-grandmother Vivian has decided to chase a self-centered, unresolved dream from her youth. Do the Copelands come together at the end to somehow resolve, or at least make sense of, all their crises? That is for the reader to decide.
Distinct and vibrant, wise and funny, WE ONLY KNOW SO MUCH ingeniously satirizes our muddled quest for love and meaning in all the wrong places. Using a razor sharp narrative voice, Crane brings to life characters with heart, depth, and compassion—characters we can’t help rooting for despite their failings, and whose stories live with us long after a book is finished.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 让·科佩兰是一位情感内向、育有两子的母亲，她曾与一位秘密情人相恋——却在一场悲剧中失去了对方，这场打击令她深受震撼。她的丈夫戈登对此毫不知情，反而被自己最珍贵的资产——记忆能力正在消退的恐惧所困扰。女儿普里西拉(自出生起就服用药物，具体细节不便详述)整天谈论衣服、电视之类的话题，并策划着将这种令人抓狂的行为蔓延至整个美国。九岁的奥蒂斯则在两大爱好之间左右为难：填字游戏和新女友。在房子的后院，祖父西奥多正处在帕金森病的初期阶段。(他对此并不介意——只要他们继续让他独自遛那只该死的狗就行。)而家族的九十八岁族长薇薇安则是一位精明敏锐的贵妇人，对蠢事毫无容忍……同时她心中仍怀揣着自己的秘密梦想。
伊丽莎白·克兰以同理心、幽默感以及令人难忘的笔触，揭示了一个家庭在众人纷纷于错误之处追寻人生意义时所经历的一切。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：2003 Recipient of the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award
About the Author/作者介绍： 伊丽莎白·克兰是回忆录《这个故事将改变》及六部小说作品的作者，其中包括短篇小说集《草皮》和长篇小说《伟大事物的历史》。她的作品已被翻译成多种语言，并发表于‘Catapult books’、‘Electric Literature’和‘Literary Hub’(美国文学网站)等多家文学刊物。其作品经常作为美国国家公共电台(NPR)《精选短篇》节目的一部分播出，并被改编为电影和舞台剧，其中最著名的作品由芝加哥斯特普沃尔夫剧院制作。她现任教于加州大学河滨分校-棕榈沙漠分校的低驻留制艺术硕士项目。Elizabeth Crane is the author of three collections of short stories: WHEN THE MESSENGER IS HOT (Little, Brown 2003), ALL THIS HEAVENLY GLORY (Little, Brown 2005), and YOU MUST BE THIS HAPPY TO ENTER (Akashic Books 2008). Her work has been featured in the magazines Other Voices, Mississippi Review, Bridge, Chicago Reader, Believer, as well as several anthologies, including McSweeney’s THE FUTURE DICTIONARY OF AMERICA (2005), ALTARED (Vintage 2007), and THE SHOW I’LL NEVER FORGET (Da Capo 2007). She is a regular contributor to Writer’s Block Party on WBEZ Chicago. Currently, she teaches creative writing and lives in Chicago with her husband and their dog.
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