To Be Sung Underwater: A Novel
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品牌: Tom McNeal
基本信息出版社:Back Bay Books (2012年6月5日)平装:464页正文语种:英语ISBN:0316127388条形码:9780316127387ASIN:0316127388商品描述内容简介Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that "picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio." Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a carpenter with a dry wit and a steadfast sense of honor. Marrying him seemed like a natural thing to promise. But Willy Blunt was not a person you could pick up in Nebraska and transport to Stanford. When Judith left home, she didn't look back.
Twenty years later, Judith's marriage is hazy with secrets. In her hand is what may be the phone number for the man who believed she meant it when she said she loved him. If she called, what would he say?
TO BE SUNG UNDERWATER is the epic love story of a woman trying to remember, and the man who could not even begin to forget.媒体推荐"You don't so much readTo Be Sung Underwateras you're consumed by it. The characters are unforgettable. The writing is staggering. More importantly, though, it's the courage of this book that sets it apart. It's the bravest, most beautiful book I've read in a long time." (Markus Zusak, author ofThe Book Thief)
"Smart, sexy, gorgeous, and at times devastatingly sad--these words describe the woman at the heart of this wonderful novel almost as well as they do the book itself. This ravishing love story will envelop you for a few days and then linger for a long time thereafter." (Ann Packer, author ofSwim Back to MeandThe Dive from Clausen's Pier)
"To Be Sung Underwateris such an immensely readable novel. McNeal has the enviable talent of making splendid writing look easy at no cost to the complexity and the beauties of what fascinates him (and me) -- the terrain occupied by women and men in love with each other. This is a wonderful book." (Richard Ford)
"McNeal's ability to tell the story from a female point of view is shockingly accurate, as is his Richard Russo-esque ability to make small town characters simply complicated....a beautiful novel that bravely examines the effect a broken relationship can have on one's life path." (Seattle Post-IntelligencerCarrie Keyes)
"An exceptional novel.... McNeal writes a kind of prose that's almost endangered today: natural, smooth and subtle." (The Wall Street JournalCynthia Crossen)
"Bautifully written.... a compelling story, uniting the literary, character-driven novel with what eventually becomes quite a page turner.... This novel will make for great book-club discussions." (The Cleveland Plain-DealerSarah Willis)
"This lovely novel is quiet and smart, drawing you so deeply into the characters that the ending might just leave you coming up for air." (Oprah MagazineGale Walden)
"Love stories have a terrible gravity, a centrifugal force. McNeal has created characters so dimensional, so memorable, that we are caught up in that urgency. Our rationality is compromised; the rules of the world fade away." (Los Angeles TimesSusan Salter Reynolds)
"Hypnotic .... so vividly written that it takes you to a place where all your perceptions seem dizzyingly altered. Which is, of course, exactly like love itself." (Washington PostCaroline Leavitt)
