Eden Close

作者: Anita Shreve 著

出版社: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

出版时间: 2011-12

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780156031332

定价: 121.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 265页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>小说

A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingeringobsession, and romantic salvation. Andrew, after many years,returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning toremain only a few days, he is drawn into the tragic legacy of hischildhood friend and beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. Anadopted child, Eden had learned to avoid the mother who did notwant her and to please the father who did. She also aimed to pleaseAndrew and his friends, first by being one of the boys and later byseducing them. Then one hot night, Andrew was awakened by gunshotsand piercing screams from the next farm: Mr. Close had been killedand Eden blinded. Now, seventeen years later, Andrew begins touncover the grisly story - to unravel the layers of thwarted lovebetween the husband, wife, and tormented girl. And as the truthabout Eden's past comes to light, so too does Andrew's strange andbinding attachment to her reveal itself. Formerly a journalist (Newsweek, US magazine) and non-fictionwriter, Anita Shreve's first novel EDEN CLOSE, published in 1990,introduced a distinctively individual voice to literary fiction.She is the author of ten other novels, all available from Little,Brown and Abacus.
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A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingeringobsession, and romantic salvation. Andrew, after many years,returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning toremain only a few days, he is drawn into the tragic legacy of hischildhood friend and beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. Anadopted child, Eden had learned to avoid the mother who did notwant her and to please the father who did. She also aimed to pleaseAndrew and his friends, first by being one of the boys and later byseducing them. Then one hot night, Andrew was awakened by gunshotsand piercing screams from the next farm: Mr. Close had been killedand Eden blinded. Now, seventeen years later, Andrew begins touncover the grisly story - to unravel the layers of thwarted lovebetween the husband, wife, and tormented girl. And as the truthabout Eden's past comes to light, so too does Andrew's strange andbinding attachment to her reveal itself.
作者简介:
Formerly a journalist (Newsweek, US magazine) and non-fictionwriter, Anita Shreve's first novel EDEN CLOSE, published in 1990,introduced a distinctively individual voice to literary fiction.She is the author of ten other novels, all available from Little,Brown and Abacus.

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