阿兰选择退出 Alan Opts Out : A Novel

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company

Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 2 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316599107

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316599108

Item weight ‏ : ‎ 540 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.26 x 3.02 x 25.27 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这部作品以诙谐幽默的方式探讨了野心、消费主义以及特权的代价。一位广告主管在职业生涯中重要的提案上遭遇惨败，他决定放弃资本主义，回归康涅狄格州郊区自家土地的耕作生活。本书适合鲁菲·索普和塔菲·布罗德瑟-阿克纳的读者。

艾伦·安德森是一位叱咤风云的广告主管，他靠着让人们购买他们并不真正需要的东西，打造了成功的人生和蒸蒸日上的事业。他即将迎来职业生涯中重要的提案，也是人人梦寐以求的客户——美国乳业公司：牛奶销量暴跌，高管们希望将时髦的燕麦奶彻底淘汰。然而，一位无政府主义农民的出现，让艾伦的提案彻底失败。但就在一天结束时，他却突然顿悟。他再也不会为了资本主义而利用他人的不安全感。艾伦决定退出。

这一决定令他的妻子薇薇安难以接受。她离加入康涅狄格州格林威治镇的精英女性俱乐部——安妮女王俱乐部——只差几句积极的鼓励、一个游泳池，以及一系列严苛的社交测试。然而，她已经够忙的了，一个女儿想写剧本，另一个女儿对动物有着异乎寻常的同情心，现在她只能眼睁睁地看着艾伦搬进他们家后院的“游戏屋”，过着自给自足的生活，更糟糕的是，他还和家人待在一起。但艾伦奉行的“少即是多”的生活方式并没有让邻居们感到震惊，反而似乎越来越受欢迎。难道每个人都想要艾伦不卖的东西吗？

《艾伦选择退出》是作家考特尼·莫姆迄今为止具有野心的作品，这部小说幽默风趣、性感迷人、睿智深刻、感人至深。莫姆以其充满智慧和真挚情感的小说而闻名，她擅长探讨后现代美国社会中那些引人深思的重大议题。

In this timely and comedic take on ambition, consumerism, and the sticker price of privilege, an ad exec who bombs the biggest pitch of his career decides to forgo capitalism and live off the land of his suburban Connecticut home. Perfect for readers of Rufi Thorpe and Taffy Brodesser-Akner.

Alan Anderson is a powerful advertising executive who has built a successful life and thriving business by making people buy stuff they don’t actually need. He’s up for the biggest pitch of his career and the account everyone wants, US Dairy: cow’s milk sales are plummeting, and the C-Suite wants to see trendy oat milk kicked to the curb. But when an anarchist farmer tanks Alan’s presentation, Alan bombs the pitch but ends the day with an epiphany. No longer will he exploit the insecurities of others in the service of capitalism. Alan is opting out.   

This development is anathema to his wife, Vivian. She’s just a few positive affirmations, a swimming pool, and an exacting series of social tests away from finally becoming part of the elite women’s club, the Queen Annes, in their adopted town of Greenwich, Connecticut. As if contending with a daughter who wants to write plays (!) and another who has an unnatural empathy with animals isn’t enough to manage, she can only watch as Alan moves into their backyard playhouse to live off the land and—worse—spend time with the family. But instead of shocking the neighbors, Alan’s commitment to a less-is-more lifestyle seems to be catching on. Could everyone want what Alan’s not selling?   

Funny, sexy, intelligent, and poignant, Alan Opts Out is the most ambitious novel to date by celebrated author Courtney Maum, acclaimed for her stories that tackle big, chewy subjects of our post-modern America with wit and heart.

作者简介

考特尼·莫姆是小说《科斯塔莱格雷》（GOOP读书俱乐部推荐，并被《魅力》杂志评为十年十佳图书之一）、《没有你我在这里玩得好开心》和《触摸》（《纽约时报》编辑之选，并入选NPR年度榜前图书）的作者，也是畅销指南《图书交易前后：作家完成、出版、推广和应对一本书的指南》以及即将出版的回忆录《马年》的作者。考特尼的文章广泛发表于《纽约时报》和《奥普拉杂志》等媒体，她的短篇小说《这不是你的错》被亚马逊改编成有声书。

Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Costalegre (a GOOP book club pick and one of Glamour Magazine’s top books of the decade), I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You and Touch (a New York Times Editor’s Choice and NPR Best Book of the Year selection), the popular guidebook Before and After the Book Deal: A writer’s guide to finishing, publishing, promoting, and surviving your first book, and the forthcoming memoir, The Year of the Horses. Courtney’s writing has been widely published in such outlets as the New York Times, and O, the Oprah Magazine, and her short story This is Not Your Fault was turned into an Audible Original at Amazon.