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基本信息·出版社：HarperPaperbacks
·页码：608 页
·出版日期：1991年09月
·ISBN：0061099279
·条形码：9780061099274
·版本：1991-09-01
·装帧：简装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：国王的橡树
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Book DescriptionLeaving behind a disastrous marriage, Diana, "Andy", Calhoun moves to the small town of Pemberton, Georgia, "in search of banality". What she discovers, though, is not serenity, but Tom Dabney, a passionate and magical man.
An exuberant poet who worships the wilderness surrounding Pemberton, Tom is everything Andy doesn't need in her life right now. But despite warnings from friends, Andy is soon deeply immersed in Tom's life and his world . . . a world he will do anything to protect. When Tom declares war on the enemy poisoning his woods, it becomes clear that Andy must choose between her life with Tom and the one she left behind -- if Pemberton society will take her back.
Book Dimension length: (cm)17.1 width:(cm)10.6
作者简介 Anne Rivers Siddons bestselling novels include Sweetwater Creek, Nora, Nora, Low Country, Up Island, Fault Lines, Downtown, Hill Towns, Colony, Outer Banks, King's Oak, Peachtree Road, Homeplace, Fox's Earth, The House Next Door, and Heartbreak Hotel. She is also the author of a work of nonfiction, John Chancellor Makes Me Cry. She and her husband Heyward split their time between their home in Charleston, SC and Brooklin, ME.
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From Publishers Weekly At the heart of this intriguing but flawed, apocalyptic novel are Diana "Andy" Calhoun and her troubled young daughter. A refugee from a violently abusive marriage, Andy joins her stodgy college pal Tish in Pemberton, an exclusive, blue-blood, Southern community where everyone talks nonstop about guns, dogs, horses and hunting, but almost no one mentions the looming presence of Big Silver, the nuclear arms plant tucked into the woods. Despite her initial distaste for this lifestyle, Andy, "a squatty little Greek" who stands out like a sore thumb at patrician gatherings, is drawn into the polo-playing elite. She falls from grace when her overwhelming attraction to Tom Dabney, Pemberton''s wild-eyed native son who has made the forest primeval his home, speculacularly ignites. When the arcane rites Tom practices can''t save his beloved woodland from the nuclear destruction leaching from Big Silver, he wages war against his neighbors. Passion, dark atmosphere and vivid imagination color this dramatic narrative, but Siddons''s ( Peachtree Road ) poetic prose is often overblown and it''s hard to care about many of her wealthy, self-absorbed, essentially dull characters. 125,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; BOMC alternate; author tour.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Best-selling author Siddons (Homeplace, LJ 4/1/87; Peachtree Road) jumps on the environmental bandwagon (with a backdrop of wife abuse) in her latest novel. Moving with her daughter to elite Georgia hunt country, Andy Calhoun is drawn (with agonizing slowness) to Tom Dabney, a "crazy" man passionately committed to the primeval woods where he lives. Finally succumbing to her attraction to Tom, she becomes involved with his efforts to save the woods from the nuclear wastes emanating from the Big Silver nuclear weapons plant. Siddons has a vivid imagination and conjures up an ancient religion whose practitioners are "at one with the woods." She picks up on some similar themes from her earlier novels (e.g., the old Southern elite versus the newly monied), but, on the whole, this is an overblown saga that lacks the romantic charm of Homeplace and the historical sweep of Peachtree Road. The larger-than-life characters aren''t endearing enough to redeem it. BOMC alternate; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/90.
- Francine Fialkoff, "Library Journal"Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. --Richmond Times-Dispatch "Ms. Siddons uses brilliant characterization, riveting suspense and a touch of myth to create a truly remarkable novel."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review "A multilayered, multifaced novel that defies you to put it down."
