一切如常 Same As It Ever Was:A Novel

基本信息

出版社 ‏ : ‎ RANDOM HOUSE US (2024年 6月 18日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

ISBN ‏ : ‎ 978-0385550963

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 369 g

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 3.3 x 23.5 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《一如既往》展示了好的风格、标志性的智慧和深刻的情商，使《我们曾经拥有过的有趣》成为过去十年备受欢迎的小说之一。 隆巴多的处女作以令人难忘的混乱家庭和多面婚姻为特色，被称为“乔纳森·弗兰岑和安妮·泰勒的文学爱子”（《卫报》），并被誉为“雄心勃勃且写得出色”（《华盛顿邮报》）。 在这部非凡的续作中，又一个优雅而喧闹的故事，继承了伊丽莎白·斯特劳特、安·帕切特和塞莱斯特·吴的传统，隆巴多向我们介绍了一群令人难忘的角色，这一次是通过她极其复杂的主角。

朱莉娅·艾姆斯经历了充满动荡和情绪动荡的青春期后，发现自己正处于中年的平静高原。 但朱莉娅从来没有像现在的特权阶层那样平静地驾驭这个世界。 好几次差点让自己出轨，拼命地寻求那种她一直觉得难以接近的联系，五十七岁的她终于觉得自己对事情有坚定的把握。

然而，她对接下来发生的事情毫无准备：她正直的儿子突然宣布了这一消息，她即将与十几岁的女儿分开，过去的诱惑又卷土重来，所有这些都有可能把她拉回到过去的模式中。 之前让她处于刀锋上。

《一如既往》穿越了现实生活的崎岖地形，探索了母亲矛盾心理、代际友谊以及支配我们所有人的偶然因果关系的新途径。 通过更深入地探究关系的本质——它们如何发展、变化，有时甚至结束——隆巴多证明了自己是人类内心真正而明确的制图师，并宣称自己是这一代优秀的小说家之一。

Same As It Ever Was showcases the consummate style, signature wit, and profound emotional intelligence that made The Most Fun We Ever Had one of the most beloved novels of the past decade. Featuring a memorably messy family and the multifaceted marriage at its heart, Lombardo’s debut was dubbed “the literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler” (The Guardian) and hailed as “ambitious and brilliantly written” (Washington Post). In this remarkable follow-up—another elegant and tumultuous story in the tradition of Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett, and Celeste Ng—Lombardo introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters, this time by way of her singularly complicated protagonist.

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty seven, that she has a firm handle on things.

She’s unprepared, though, for what comes next: a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her spikey teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past, all of which threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor’s edge.

Same As It Ever Was traverses the rocky terrain of real life, —exploring new avenues of maternal ambivalence, intergenerational friendship, and the happenstantial cause-and-effect that governs us all. Delving even deeper into the nature of relationships—how they grow, change, and sometimes end—Lombardo proves herself a true and definitive cartographer of the human heart and asserts herself among the finest novelists of her generation.

作者简介

克莱尔·隆巴多 (CLAIRE LOMBARDO) 在爱荷华州作家工作室获得了小说硕士学位。 她的处女作《THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD》初次登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，并已被翻译成十多种语言或即将出版。 克莱尔曾担任社会工作者，目前教授小说写作。 她在伊利诺伊州奥克帕克出生和长大，现在住在爱荷华州爱荷华市。

《我们所经历过的有趣的事》目前正在改编为连续剧，由劳拉·邓恩和艾米·亚当斯制作，隆巴多编剧。

CLAIRE LOMBARDO earned her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her debut novel, THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD, debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, and has been translated or is forthcoming in over a dozen languages. Claire has worked as a social worker and currently teaches fiction writing. She was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, and now lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD is currently being adapted as a series to be produced by Laura Dern and Amy Adams and written by Lombardo.