书名：A Stranger in the Mirror镜子里的陌生人

作者：Sidney Sheldon

出版社名称：HarperCollins

出版时间：2012

语种：英文 

ISBN：9780007228263

商品尺寸：11.1 x 2.6 x 17.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：400 （以实物为准）

西德尼·谢尔顿是美国当代著名的通俗小说作家，集奥斯卡奖、托尼奖和爱伦·坡奖于一身，被公认为“zui会讲故事的人”之一。

“你休想从镜子里认出自己，因为那儿只有个陌生人的影子。” 作者西德尼·谢尔顿曾经是获得过奥斯卡奖的好莱坞金牌编剧，多年浸泡于影视圈的他，把自己对好莱坞的深刻体察、对人性的洞见和高超的叙事技巧融为一炉，为读者奉上A Stranger in the Mirror《镜子里的陌生人》这个惊心动魄、令人唏嘘的故事。 A consuming tale of fame and passion from the internationally bestselling author of The Other Side of Midnight and If Tomorrow Comes.From humble beginnings, Toby Temple becomes a superstar. He knows what he wants – and he always makes sure he gets what he wants. He is the world's funniest comedian, loved by presidents, lusted after by women. But, deep down, he yearns for love and stability. Jill Castle has always been an outsider, desperate to be accepted. Despite her great beauty, she finds breaking into Hollywood as an actress impossible without auditioning on the Directors' infamous casting couches. But, with one glance, Toby falls for Jill's beauty and sweeps her out of obscurity to stardom by his side. Now, she can get the revenge she has always longed for… Glamour, glitz, sex and revenge combine in this classic Sidney Sheldon novel, one of his page-turning best. Praise for Sidney Sheldon:‘Sheldon is an author working at the height of his power.’--New York Times ‘Fast-moving… engrossing… Sidney Sheldon is a master at giving the public what it wants.’--Los Angeles Times‘A master storyteller at the top of his game.’--USA Today

A Stranger in the Mirror《镜子里的陌生人》讲述了横渡大西洋的豪华游轮启航之前，发生了很多匪夷所思的事情。放映室的门大开着，里面血迹斑斑；百万富翁大卫·肯尼文弃船而去；大明星托比·坦波尔的遗孀痛不欲生。喜剧明星的悲剧人生，在好莱坞挣扎的底层女演员的辛酸经历，每个人都有复仇的野心，和爱恨交织在一起。西德尼·谢尔顿（Sidney Sheldon，1917-2007）是美国当代著名的通俗小说作家。他早年毕业于西北大学，二战期间曾在美国空军服役，退伍后为百老汇写剧本，曾获戏剧“托尼”奖和电影“奥斯卡奖”。1970年发表第1部长篇小说《裸脸》，获“爱伦·坡”奖。他的小说大多以西方上层社会的活动为背景，主人公很多都是自强不息、与社会作决死拼斗的女性，对强者的推崇有社会达尔文主义的气息。谢尔顿是一个故事大师，他小说中的故事情节迭宕起伏、一波三折、悬念丛生，时空跨度大、人物多、涉足领域广，读罢有酣畅淋漓的感觉。其主要作品有《天使的愤怒》、《滴血的钻石》、《假若明天来临》等。

A master storyteller,Sidney Sheldonis the author of seventeen novels (which have sold over 300 million copies), over 200 television scripts, twenty-five major motion pictures and six Broadway plays, ranking him as one of the world's most prolific writers.

On a Saturday morning in early November in 1969, a series of bizarre and inexplicable events occurred aboard the fifty-five-thousand-ton luxury liner SS Bretagne as it was preparing to sail from the Port of New York to Le Havre.

Claude Dessard, chief purser of the Bretagne, a capable and meticulous man, ran, as he was fond of saying, a ‘tight ship’. In the fifteen years Dessard had served aboard the Bretagne, he had never encountered a situation he had not been able to deal with efficiently and discreetly. Considering that the SS Bretagne was a French ship, this was high tribute, indeed. However, on this particular summer day it was as though a thousand devils were conspiring against him. It was of small consolation to his sensitive Gallic pride that the intensive investigations conducted afterwards by the American and French branches of Interpol and the steamship line’s own security forces failed to turn up a single plausible explanation for the extraordinary happenings of that day. Because of the fame of the persons involved, the story was told in headlines all over the world, but the mystery remained unsolved. As for Claude Dessard, he retired from the Cie Transatlantique and opened a bistro in Nice, where he never tired of reliving with his patrons that strange, unforgettable November day. It had begun, Dessard recalled, with the delivery of flowers from the President of the United States. One hour before sailing time, an official black limousine bearing government licence plates had driven up to Pier 92 on the lower Hudson River. A man wearing a charcoal-grey suit had disembarked from the car, carrying a bouquet of thirty-six Sterling Silver roses. He had made his way to the foot of the gangplank and exchanged a few words with Alain Safford, the Bretagne’s officer on duty. The flowers were ceremoniously transferred to Janin, a junior deck officer, who delivered them and then sought out Claude Dessard.