SEARCHING FOR GRACE KELLY
Book ID/图书代码： 06814013B65032
English Summary/英文概要： For a small-town girl with a big dream in 1955, there is no address more glamorous than New York’s Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives in its vaunted halls to work at Mademoiselle for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate Dolly comes from a working-class upstate town to attend secretarial school. Vivian, a brash, redheaded British bombshell with a disregard for the hotel’s rules, rounds out the unlikely trio of friends.
As the summer wears on, Laura struggles to find her footing in the chic but formidable world of Manhattan publishing while Dolly battles her own demons of self-doubt. Vivian longs to sing at the Stork Club instead of just shilling cigarettes there, but finds herself floundering in more ways than one. Together, the girls embark on a journey of self-discovery that will take them from the penthouse salons of Park Avenue to the Beat scene of Greenwich Village to Atlantic City’s Steel Pier — and into the arms of very different men who will alter their lives forever.
SEARCHING FOR GRACE KELLY by Vanity Fair Contributing Editor Michael Callahan is a shimmering first novel about three women who find their destiny in the most exciting city on earth. With deft strokes, he captures a sparkling bygone era with a story as compelling and shocking as it is timeless, and one that should appeal to readers of literary fiction, upmarket women’s fiction, and book club fiction, as well as any fan of Rona Jaffe’s classic The Best of Everything.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1955年，对于一个有着远大梦想的小镇姑娘而言，再没有什么地方比纽约巴比松饭店更具有吸引力了。劳拉，一名来自史密斯的贵族美女来到了这座饭店的穹顶之下，开始了其在《小姐》杂志的夏日工作。她的室友多莉是一名无可救药的浪漫主义者，来自于北部小镇的一个工人家庭，她来到这里参加秘书学校的授课。薇薇安，傲慢急躁的英国小辣椒，无视饭店里的各种规定，但却完成了看似不可能的在三人之间建立起友情的任务。
当夏日逐渐消逝，劳拉仍旧努力地在时尚却令人畏惧的曼哈顿出版界站稳脚跟，多莉则于内心深处自我怀疑的恶魔进行着斗争。比起在司令俱乐部卖雪茄，薇薇安更渴望能够在那里的舞台上一展歌喉，然却又发现自己到处都在跌跌撞撞。三人一起踏上了一场自我发现的旅程，这一旅程将带领她们从派克大街的阁楼沙龙来到格林尼治村的竞赛现场和大西洋城的钢铁码头---并最终进入到迥然相异的不同男人们的怀抱之中，并从此改变她们的一生。
这本来自于《名利场》杂志撰稿编辑迈克尔•卡拉翰的小说作品《寻找格蕾丝•凯莉》是其精雕细琢的首部小说，讲述了三名女人在全世界最激越人心的城市里寻找各自命运的故事。他用巧妙的笔锋与动人、充满冲击力的经久不衰的故事，捕捉着那个已逝的年代，这一故事一定会吸引文学小说、高端女性小说集图书俱乐部小说爱好者们前去阅读，同样对于罗娜•加菲的经典作品《最好的一切》的粉丝而言，也一定大有吸引力。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：“极具风格，读来精彩可口。卡拉翰温文尔雅的将文学的精妙性与流行小说的通俗性结合在一起，创作出了这样一部简单易读同时又令人揪心不已的浪漫悲剧作品。”---《书单》
“书中的对话音律感极强，同时全书节奏堪称完美。可谓是一个十分罕见的精彩故事。”---劳拉•莫里阿提，纽约时报畅销书作家，著有《第一章》
“邪恶、淘气，却又不乏睿智。”---梅丽莎•德拉克鲁兹，纽约时报畅销书作家，著有《东区女巫》
“悬念、犀利、浪漫，大爱本书中故事的每时每刻。”---派普•科曼，畅销书作家，著有《橙色是全新的黑色》
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About the Author/作者介绍： Michael Callahan is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former deputy editor at Town & Country and Marie Claire. His articles have been published in more than two dozen national magazines, including Men’s Health, Real Simple, Vibe, and Good Housekeeping. Searching for Grace Kelly is his first novel.
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