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The Dearly Departed

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作者：Elinor Lipman 著

出版社：Random House

出版时间：2001-06-12

I S B N：9780679463122

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Praise for The Ladies Man"I loved every page of this very funny, insightful, sophisticated yet good-natured book."?The New York Times Book Review"In a deft balancing act, Lipman gets at heartache and familial truths with both honesty and humor."?Entertainment Weekly"Delightful. . . . Once you start reading this book, you wonít want to do anything else."?Newsday"Hilarious. . . . [Lipman's] fiction renders serious subjects through a lens of humor and hope."?The Boston Globe"Nobody is better at distilling motives and first impressions in narrative shorthand. . . . You won't find better reporting from the front lines of the battle between the sexes."?The Seattle Times"Smart, darkly comic . . . Lipman's sharp satiric sense recalls that of Alison Lurie."?Chicago TribunePraise for The Inn at Lake Devine"A tale of delicious revenge."?USA Today"An author who was born with an auto-immune system already primed against clichés and an ear for dialogue sharper than an electronic listening system."?The Times (London) -- Review

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Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiance, brings Sunny back to the scene of her unhappy adolescence, to the community that remembers her solely, nervously, as "the girl who golfed." Reentry is to be dreaded; there s no hiding in a town with one diner, one doctor, one stop sign, one motel. Yet allies surface: The country club opens its doors to its former Orphan Annie caddie. High school classmates, even the tormenters, have grown up nicely, matured in unforeseen and gratifying ways. Maybe, Sunny begins to think, she wasn t as beleaguered as she felt she was; maybe her mother s life was richer than anyone suspected; and maybe the man at the funeral-the one with her face, her flyaway hair, her golf swing-is the halfbrother she doesn t know she needs. Elinor Lipman writes with the wry authority of a latter-day Jane Austen. The Dearly Departed is another perfect blend of social comedy, pointed wit, and precise pacing from our last urbane romantic.