基本信息出版社：Back Bay Books
页码：304 页
出版日期：2007年01月
ISBN：0316068128
International Standard Book Number：0316068128
条形码：9780316068123
EAN：9780316068123
版本：Papercover
装帧：简装
开本：32
正文语种：英语

内容简介 Book Description

Once divorced and once widowed, twenty-nine-year-old Sydney is trying to regain her footing when she takes a job tutoring the daughter of a well-to-do couple at their stunning seaside cottage. But when the family’s two grown sons arrive both of them handsome, competitive, and enraptured by Sydney the fragile existence she has rebuilt is threatened. With the subtle language and brilliant insight that have made her beloved of readers the world over, Anita Shreve weaves a novel about the longing for family and the supreme courage it takes to love.

作者简介 Anita Shreve is the critically acclaimed author of twelve previous novels, including A Wedding in December, The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club, and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange Prize. She lives in Massachusetts.
编辑推荐 Reviews
1. “Shreve writes crisp, evocative sentences that can pierce like shards of fine glass.”
---------Entertainment Weekly

2. “A thoughtful, tightly woven meditation on marriage and mortality, family devotion and dysfunction.”
---------USA Today

3. “A harrowing and heart-wrenching story about the impossible decision one woman must make.”
---------Cosmopolitan

4. “A dramatic domestic tale…Shreve’s fans will not be disappointed.”
---------Seattle Times