基本信息出版社：Harper Paperbacks
页码：244 页
出版日期：2001年12月
ISBN：0060957832
条形码：9780060957834
版本：第1版
装帧：平装
开本：32
正文语种：英语
外文书名：只要她需要我
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《AS LONG AS SHE NEEDS ME(只要她需要我)》的主要内容包括：This frothy and frolicsome first novel is a "musical comedy without the music," in P.G. Wodehouse's phrase. Oliver Campbell, a tall, gawky but handsome former English major, is trapped in the job of executive editorial assistant at Dawn Books. Lauren LaRose, a beautiful but burned-out journalist, pens "The Aisle of White," a popular monthly magazine column devoted to trendy theme weddings. At the nuptials of Oliver's college roommate, Oliver and Lauren are seated together at the Butt Table (the opposite of the Head Table). In their early 30s and weary of dating, both live solitary lives, but as the wedding winds down, Oscar draws Lauren onto the dance floor. Once back in New York, their attraction is in classic comedy fashion challenged by obstacles and misunderstandings. Dawn, Oliver's nightmare boss, commandeers his time, demanding that he plan every detail of her upcoming top-secret marriage to literary super-agent Gordon Fox. Taking Oliver's obsession with wedding plans as evidence that he is engaged, Lauren keeps her distance and endures a string of disastrous blind dates. Will the two ever manage to get together? Although the answer is never in doubt, getting there is a merry and manic dance through the cutthroat world of New York publishing and the insanity of contemporary "coordinated" weddings. Clever quips (some misfire, but there's always another coming up), insider information, swift pacing and a bright cast of secondary characters are the bubbles in an entertainment as effervescent as Perrier-Jouet. Agent, Tina Bennett. (Apr. 1)Forecast: Weinstock paid his dues working at three publishing houses, so the tease of a roman … clef is sure to generate buzz among those in the business. Like David Sedaris, he has been featured on NPR and his comic insights and deadpan wit will further broaden his appeal to a wide swath of readers.
作者简介
Nicholas Weinstock is the author of The Secret Love of Sons and the novel As Long As She Needs Me. His writing has been featured on National Public Radio and in publications including the New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Vogue, Nerve, Ladies' Home Journal, and Poets & Writers. He is a member of the council of the Authors Guild, and he works as vice president of comedy development for 20th Century Fox Television and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Amanda Beesley, and their three children.
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From Publishers Weekly
This frothy and frolicsome first novel is a "musical comedy without the music," in P.G. Wodehouse''s phrase. Oliver Campbell, a tall, gawky but handsome former English major, is trapped in the job of executive editorial assistant at Dawn Books. Lauren LaRose, a beautiful but burned-out journalist, pens "The Aisle of White," a popular monthly magazine column devoted to trendy theme weddings. At the nuptials of Oliver''s college roommate, Oliver and Lauren are seated together at the Butt Table (the opposite of the Head Table). In their early 30s and weary of dating, both live solitary lives, but as the wedding winds down, Oscar draws Lauren onto the dance floor. Once back in New York, their attraction is in classic comedy fashion challenged by obstacles and misunderstandings. Dawn, Oliver''s nightmare boss, commandeers his time, demanding that he plan every detail of her upcoming top-secret marriage to literary super-agent Gordon Fox. Taking Oliver''s obsession with wedding plans as evidence that he is engaged, Lauren keeps her distance and endures a string of disastrous blind dates. Will the two ever manage to get together? Although the answer is never in doubt, getting there is a merry and manic dance through the cutthroat world of New York publishing and the insanity of contemporary "coordinated" weddings. Clever quips (some misfire, but there''s always another coming up), insider information, swift pacing and a bright cast of secondary characters are the bubbles in an entertainment as effervescent as Perrier-Jouet. Agent, Tina Bennett. (Apr. 1)Forecast: Weinstock paid his dues working at three publishing houses, so the tease of a roman … clef is sure to generate buzz among those in the business. Like David Sedaris, he has been featured on NPR and his comic insights and deadpan wit will further broaden his appeal to a wide swath of readers.
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--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.From Booklist
Oscar, the hero of Weinstock''s funny and breezy novel, is a beleaguered personal assistant at a Manhattan publishing house called Dawn Books. He reports directly to Dawn herself--a raving egomaniac, the kind of over-the-top diva usually played by Glenn Close in the movies. For a decade, Oscar has tended to all of Dawn''s needs, including editing her titles, but when it comes time to plan Dawn''s secret wedding to a high-profile agent, Oscar feels lost. Fortunately, he soon crosses paths with Lauren LaRose, an attractive, single writer whose well-known wedding column appears in a national bride''s magazine. Oscar appeals to Lauren for her expert guidance and also to be able to spend time with her. Lauren, whose view of romance has become cynical after attending so many weddings, is grateful for Oscar''s help in pepping up her columns, but she assumes that Oscar is planning his own wedding and so keeps him at arm''s length. The outcome is as predictable as a wedding march, but Weinstock''s clever prose and fast pace will charm the romantic spirit of many readers. James Klise
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Francine Prose, US Magazine
"Weinstock''s clever tale provides, like a glass of good champagne, all the heady, fizzy pleasures of a 1930''s screwball comedy." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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文摘 “Jesus，Stop talking.Sit down.Oscar.Sit forChrissake.”.she watched him fold himself into thechair opposite her.“I can’t bear to have you standingover me like a weeping goddamn willow.Shut up.Sitstill.And pay attention.That's the one thing I ask.” As shc looked over her phone messages，he lookedOVer ber She was in good shape.he had to admit，thehealthiest he’d seen her in agas.Dawn was that fear.some brand of olympian woman who，after sprintingthrough the rat races and obstacle courses of male.dominated careerism.kicks over the hurdle ofher fifti-cth birthday and picks up speed.He had tracked herchanges over the years from the close vantage point ofa friend.albeit without the friendship.and this whitestage suited her well.Her dark stage had been tire.some.marked bv zombie eyeliner and funerealsweaters and by his trips to exchange her pitch.blackboots for iet-black versions of the same model。Herfloral fat srage，before that.had been an overblownrcsD0nse to thc diet frenzy of the late.80s.when he.dstarted.his first weeks of work spent fetching hermorning bran muffins and ordering crates of grape.fruit.Aerobics had trotted in and out of the picture，along with his missions in search of leggings andJogbras.Epuestrianism had its moment，iodhpurs anda11.as did terapy and botany；but the new Dawn hadwhited out all such dalliances.Gone were the kaleido-scopic distractions of her past，and in their place wasa color cssbcus on success.