A Wedding in December 十二月的婚禮
[ 2006-12-27 11:19 ]
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Author: Anita Shreve
List Price: $25.95
Pages: 336
Publisher: Little, Brown and
Company
ISBN: 0316738999
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| Bill and Bridget were sweethearts at Maine's Kidd
Academy who rediscovered one another at their 25th reunion. Bridget
was already divorced; Bill left his family; the two have now
gathered their Kidd coterie to witness their hasty wedding—Bridget
has breast cancer—at widow Nora's western Massachusetts inn. The
death of charismatic schoolmate Stephen at a drunken high school
party hovers over the event. Stephen's then-roommate, Harrison, now
a married literary publisher, remains particularly tormented by it,
especially since he had (and still has) romantic feelings for Nora,
who was Stephen's then-girlfriend. Abrasive Wall Street businessman
Jerry, now-out-of-the-closet pianist Rob, single Agnes (who teaches
at Kidd and has a secret of her own) and various children round
things out. Tensions build as the group gets snowed in, and someone
gets drunk enough to say what everyone's been thinking. |
七位高中同學在分離二十七年后，因為一場婚禮而相聚。新郎Bill與新娘Bridge曾是一對情侶，卻在畢業后分手，不過Bill在兩年前重新向與癌癥奮斗的單親媽媽Bridge求婚。他們決定在婚禮中把高中死黨找來重聚。七人中最具領導特質的Stephen已在一次意外中喪生，出席婚禮的成員包括在原高中教歷史的Agnes；在紐約經商的Jerry與他太太；鋼琴師Rob與他的伙伴；出版商Harrison與新娘的兒子Matt。這次的相聚，Stephen的去世仍深深影響了他們，他們彼此之間也充滿了秘密，在這次聚會中漸漸發酵。
About
Author
Anita Shreve is the author
of The Pilot's Wife (1998), Fortune's Rocks (1999), The Last Time
They Met (2001), Sea Glass (2002) . Anita Shreve began writing
fiction while working as a high school teacher. Now she lives in
Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
美國小說家Anita Shreve，曾出版過多部優秀作品，如Sea
Glass，Fortune's Rocks等。現居住在馬薩諸塞州。
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