平庸之人 The Most

基本信息

出版社：Little, Brown and Company (2024年 7月 30日)

语言：英语

平装：144页

ISBN-10：0316576379

ISBN-13：978-0316576376

商品重量：163 g

尺寸：14.86 x 1.09 x 21.08 cm

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书籍简介

本书作者是“我们激动人心、独特的创新者之一”——（劳拉·范登伯格）

这是一个紧凑而引人入胜的故事，讲述了一位 20 世纪 50 年代的美国家庭主妇，一天早上她决定跳进自家公寓楼的游泳池，然后就再也不出来了。

1957 年 11 月的一个星期天，天气异常温暖。凯瑟琳是一名大学网球健将，后来成为特拉华州的家庭主妇，她决定不和英俊的寿险推销员丈夫维吉尔或他们的两个年幼的儿子一起去教堂。相反，她在他们公寓楼的肾形游泳池里畅游。然后她就再也不出来了。

这是一本引人入胜、适合一口气读完的书，故事持续了 8 个小时，《THE MOST》揭开了看似田园诗般的中世纪婚姻的闪亮表面，让我们沉浸在其下不言而喻的真相中。当斯普尼克 2 号载着注定要灭亡的苏联狗莱卡绕地球飞行时，凯瑟琳和维吉尔互相冲撞，直到他们面临一场清算，这场清算要么会摧毁他们的婚姻，要么将其转变为现实。

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who decides to get into the pool in her family’s apartment complex one morning and won’t come out.

It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her flagrantly handsome life insurance salesman husband, Virgil, or their two young boys, at church. Instead, she takes a dip in the kidney-shaped swimming pool of their apartment complex. And then she won’t come out.

A riveting, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, THE MOST breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage, immersing us in the unspoken truth beneath. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle towards each other until they arrive at a reckoning that will either shatter their marriage, or transform it, at last, into something real.

作者简介

杰西卡·安东尼 (Jessica Anthony) 著有三本小说，出版的小说《Enter the Aardvark》入围了新英格兰图书奖小说类决赛。安东尼曾获得创意资本文学奖，她在斯洛伐克什图罗沃的玛丽亚·瓦莱里亚大桥担任守卫时创作了《The Most》。她现居缅因州波特兰。

Jessica Anthony is the author of three books of fiction, most recently the novel Enter the Aardvark, a finalist for the New England Book Award in Fiction. A recipient of the Creative Capital Award in Literature, Anthony wrote The Most while guarding the Mária Valéria Bridge in Štúrovo, Slovakia. She lives in Portland, Maine.