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基本信息·出版社：Putnam Publishing Group
·页码：227 页
·出版日期：2000年04月
·ISBN：0399143912
·条形码：9780399143915
·版本：第1版
·装帧：精装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：大都市眼界
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Synopsis:
The author of "Hanging Up" brings her heart and humor to the story of a woman's attempt to deal with passion, guilt, murder, and motherhood.
Description:
"Compassionate, funny, and tremendously satisfying," was The New York Times Book Review's description of Delia Ephron's first novel, Hanging Up. In her new book, she brings her heart and humor to the story of a woman's attempt to deal with passion, guilt, murder, and motherhood.
In a state of near panic because of the nighttime activities of her teenage son, Lily Davis decides to uproot herself and Sam from Manhattan to Sakonnet Bay, a small Long Island town, where presumably the opportunities for trouble and grief are less available. She becomes a reporter for the weekly paper, Sam enrolls in high school, and for at least a few weeks life proceeds as expected. Then, through unexpected and unnerving circumstances, she spies a naked woman asleep in a summer house. And everything changes. There is a murder. Or is there? And there is a man. But he is married, and Lily is filled with guilt-about her own divorce. Friendship and love relationships unravel, or threaten to. Are people and events as they seem, or is Lily just perceiving her small town through big-city eyes?
"Gentle humor and deadpan observation," said The Boston Globe of Hanging Up. "Ephron handles her characters with a deft, delicate touch." Delia Ephron has become known for her subtle ability to mix wit and sensitivity. In this book, she outdoes herself, with quirky Lily Davis, a big-city woman attempting to make sense of small-town life.
From Publishers Weekly
Ephron is best known for her screenwriting work (Sleepless in Seattle; You've Got Mail), but her talent for witty dialogue flourishes in her second novel (after Hanging Up), set in Sakonnet Bay, Long Island, where freelance reporter and single mom Lily Davis moves from Manhattan with her 15-year-old son, Sam. Lily decided to move to the small town when she realized Sam was sneaking out to nightclubs and hiding a knife in his bureau drawer, but her efforts to give him safe harbor are thwarted by his sullen rebelliousness and his Klingon-speaking girlfriend, Deidre. An inveterate New Yorker, Lily is uncomfortable in the cozy, gossipy town and fearful of almost everything. Do the deer grazing on her front lawn have rabies? Are Sam's antisocial tendencies and dreadful haircut "normal range behavior"? Has she become the town joke for insulting police Sgt. Tom McKee during an incident involving a dog whose head got stuck in a pitcher? Soon Lily has serious issues to worry about, such as the naked woman--dead, drugged or sleeping--she and Tom discover in a supposedly empty house. When the woman's body is later found after having been haphazardly buried by someone in a swampy area, Lily starts sleuthing to find out what happened. Not only does this investigation reveal a less than idyllic side to Sakonnet Bay, it also forces her to confront disturbing truths about her son, her divorce and her growing feelings for the married Tom. Despite billing herself as an "irritating," liberated city woman, Lily tends to musings about family and divorce that reveal Ephron's moral to the story: divorce can be confusing and painful for kids, but a loving parent can still keep her child on track. Lily learns she can't safeguard her son merely by shielding him from big-city dangers. The road to this hard-earned lesson takes the reader through a novel that sparkles with lively characters.
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 237 Width (mm) 161
作者简介 Delia Ephron
Delia Ephron is a scriptwriter and producer. She is the sister of Nora Ephron.
媒体推荐 Spotlight Reviews
1.A fun beach book!, June 2, 2000
Reviewer: Catfish_Hunter (Oak Park, Il)
Okay. So this book is not high art, but I loved it. Spending a little time in Sakonnet Bay was just the break I needed. The main character --Lily-- seemed so familiar, like an old friend, and then it struck me: I think Harriet the Spy grew up to be Lily Davis. The story is a lightweight mystery--very funny, sweet and bittersweet and Eprhron,as ususual, has given us a bunch of wacky ancillary characters that are written with a great deal of affection. I hope that she'll use Lily and Sam,Deidre and Jane in another book, because I hated to lose them at the close of this one.
2.Touching...as a parent, I was moved by it., October 29, 2001
Reviewer: Paul LaRosa (www.paullarosa.com) (NY United States)
We all come to a novel with our particular bias; mine is as a parent. I loved Ephron's non-stop rating of her son (normal range, not normal range, etc.)and found it both touching and funny. The book has a winsome quality and rather than see it as Lily Davis growth as a woman, I chose to view the novel as her growth as a parent. At the beginning, I would rate her in the normal range but just barely but as the story plows ahead, she makes it to the very normal range. I also enjoyed the fact that Lily Davis does not give in to her own desires but rather to her son's, at least at the end of the book. Aside from everything else, the columns by Lily Davis were quite well written...if only writing like that appeared in every small town weekly. That's another thing...the book is about a Manhattan woman's radical move to a small town and small town life, aside from "Gilmore Girls," was never more charming. Loved it, recommend it.
Customer Reviews
1.Great fun, August 21, 2003
Reviewer: A reader
I was given this book as a gift, started reading it and couldn't put it down! I finished it in record time. Everything about it was almost perfectly done - character development was awesome..very realistic characters who are as neurotic as most people you come across in your everyday life..including yourself. The storyline is fun and intriguing and I found myself laughing out loud at many parts. Yay Delia Eprhon!
2.Ephron shows off her talent here!, March 20, 2001
Reviewer: A reader
I'm surprised there are a number of negative comments about this book -- I almost didn't read it because of them, but now I'm sure glad I did. I really thought the author did an exceptional job on the narrative -- fresh, creative descriptions and a protagonist with interesting and clever thoughts! It amazed me how Ephron can draw for us a seemingly ordinary day in the protagonist's life -- and turn it into a plot that keeps you there. She also uses dialogue creatively to reveal characters' personalities. Ending was thoughtful and real. Thanks, Delia!
