UNDER THE WIDE AND STARRY SKY: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 11320013B64736
English Summary/英文概要： From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.
At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium—with her three children and nanny in tow—to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists’ colony in France where she can recuperate. Emerging from a deep sorrow, she meets a lively Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who falls instantly in love with the earthy, independent, and opinionated “belle Americaine.”
Fanny does not immediately take to the slender young lawyer who longs to devote his life to writing—and who would eventually pen such classics as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson’s charms, and the two begin a fierce love affair—marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness—that spans the decades and the globe. The shared life of these two strong-willed individuals unfolds into an adventure as impassioned and unpredictable as any of Stevenson’s own unforgettable tales.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部跌宕起伏的爱情故事源自美国女作家南希•霍兰的第一部名声大噪的历史小说，这部作品再现了建筑大师弗兰克•劳埃德•赖特和一位已经可能被淡忘的名叫Mamah Cheney之间一段不大光彩的浪漫史。她为第二部小说的创作灵感再度汲取了前部传记，虽然故事背景转至欧洲，刚到美国旧金山的35岁的范•徳•格列福特•奥斯本，一位勇敢的母亲拖着三个孩子和保姆，逃离了自己那位整天拈花惹草的丈夫。
范尼一直希望能在比利时学习艺术，但当悲剧发生后,她前往欧洲艺术家聚集地法国。在那里,她遇到了比她小10岁的一位有着艺术天赋的苏格兰男人。他的名字是罗伯特•路易斯•史蒂文森。他们之间充满激情好创造力的艺术火花一直维系了数十年。
不同于其他历史小说, 霍兰对故事中的几个人物，范妮和路易之间激情似火的互动，和这位独立女性的精神有着同样多的关注,她是,她对路易能为她卷烟的初期印象,以及她那超越璀璨星光的艺术才华。
他们之间那种强烈而又复杂的关系可能让这两人已经身心具疲，但跃然于纸面之上却又让人异常激动……(XAT)
Awards/获奖情况：“霍兰的第二本小说值得读者们的等待。书中洋溢着她惯有的艺术神韵，推动着主角间复杂多变的关系发展，苏格兰作家罗伯特•路易斯•史蒂文森和他于印第安纳州出生的妻子，范妮•奥斯本都有着充满冒险色彩的生活，独自都能书写出一段精彩的故事。但他们这次要共同行动，书中也通过动人的情节描绘着两人关系的进展。这对自由的夫妻展开了一段振奋人心的旅程，不断寻找着心中的家园。”——《书目》
“这是多么不平凡的故事！能分享路易斯和范尼在环游世界过程中的希望与艰辛，我感到很幸运，很快乐。他们在萨摩亚的生活尤其吸引人眼球。南希.霍兰颠覆了我对罗伯特•路易斯•史蒂文森的所有了解，以及他富有激情，独立的美国妻子。这个勇于抗争的女性形象一直萦绕在我心中。”——劳伦贝尔弗
“南希.霍兰的第一本小说《爱上弗兰克》大获成功。所以很多人担心第二部作品《广袤星空》很难再获佳绩。但是，南希.霍兰的成功并非偶然，《广袤星空》精彩依旧。”——作家皮特•德克斯特，国家图书奖获得者
霍兰的第二部小说依旧以真实的故事为蓝本，以一个有名的男性和同样令人印象深刻的女性为主角。这本出色的小说很好地平衡了这两个人物之间的关系，使他们如此真实，优雅，幽默，贴近生活。霍兰对路易斯和范尼的情感使得她能够捕捉到这对夫妻情感的复杂性，以及他们与现实生活关系的细微差别。”——《出版者周刊》
范尼和路易斯都有着自由的灵魂，无畏地在自己的旅程上前行，几十年来，从遥远的大陆到极度寒冷的地带。他们展示着自己的雄心壮志，以及永不向生活妥协的精神。——宝拉.麦克莲
About the Author/作者介绍： 南希•霍兰因其在 2007年发表的小说《亲爱的弗兰克》而闻名,这部作品记载了美国建筑师弗兰克•劳埃德•赖特，和他的客户Mamah Borthwick Cheney,一段鲜为人知的传奇故事。《亲爱的弗兰克》在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上停留长达一年。这部小说被翻译成16种语言,还获得了2009年美国历史学家协会所授予的詹姆斯•费尼莫尔•库珀最佳历史小说奖。
她的新作《广袤星空》,探讨了可能的关系罗伯特•路易斯•史蒂文森和他勇敢的美国妻子芬妮•范德•史蒂文森的一段不寻常的关系。霍兰描绘和诠释尘封往事对现实生活中人们所产生的影响。史蒂文森被搁置在一个明智的角度进行观察:“天下没有不散的宴席。”作者感兴趣的是她故事中的这些人物如何到达宴会,以及他们如何处理他们所选择的结果。
来自美国本土中西部,南希•霍兰之前是一名教师和记者，后转行写作小说。她和儿子在伊利诺斯州，芝加哥郊区的橡树公园居住了25年。现今和她的丈夫住在普吉特海湾的一个小岛上定居。
《广袤星空》将于2014年1月出版。
Nancy Horan is best known for her 2007 novel Loving Frank, which chronicles a little-known chapter in the life of legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and his client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. Loving Frank remained on the New York Times Bestseller list for over a year. It has been translated into sixteen languages, and won the 2009 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction, awarded by the Society of American Historians.
Her new novel, Under the Wide and Starry Sky, explores the unlikely relationship of Robert Louis Stevenson and his spirited American wife, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson. Horan aims to understand the past by interpreting and portraying the impact of real events on the lives of real people. Stevenson has been credited with a wise observation: “Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.” The author is interested in how her characters arrive at the banquet, and how they deal with the results of their choices.
A native Midwesterner, Nancy Horan was a teacher and journalist before turning to fiction writing. She lived for 25 years in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where she raised her two sons. She now lives with her husband on an island in Puget Sound.
Under the Wide and Starry Sky will be published in January, 2014.
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