Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
分類: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Comic(喜剧),
品牌: Maria Semple
基本信息出版社:Little, Brown and Company (2012年8月14日)精装:336页正文语种:英语ISBN:0316204277条形码:9780316204279ASIN:0316204277您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.
To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.媒体推荐"Brilliant, hilarious, endlessly inventive, and compulsively readable,Where'd You Go, Bernadettegrabs you by the collar and never lets go. Semple is not only a masterful juggler, and an astute social critic, she is a magician!" (Jonathan Evison, author ofWest of Here)
"A delightfully funny book, that constantly catches one by surprise,Where'd You Go, Bernadettecombines a shrewdly observed portrait of Seattle-life with, of all things, a mysterious disappearance in Antarctica. A pleasure." (Matthew Kneale, author ofWhen We Were Romans)
"It was only a matter of time before Maria Semple turned her hilariously wicked, razor-sharp, acid-etched humor loose on Seattle, and set her impeccable laser sights on the heart of Microsoft. At times a tears-to-your-eyes laugher that skewers my own home town (and quite possibly my own mother),Where'd You Go, Bernadetteis also a compassionate look at family dysfunction, the paralysis of genius, and good old-fashioned parental love. Cleverly constructed and brilliantly executed, Semple has driven this one home with great authority, and has proven, once again, that she ranks among contemporary literature's finest satirists." (Garth Stein, author ofThe Art of Racing in the Rain)
"With a sure feel for the screwball and the slapstick, Maria Semple deliciously sends up the privileged, overachieving, PC world of Emerald City.Where'd You Go, Bernadetteis a crazy quilt of an epistolary novel, utterly contemporary yet pleasingly old-fashioned, and always light and witty." (Stewart O'Nan, author ofThe Odds)
"Where'd You Go, Bernadetteis fresh and funny and accomplished, but the best thing about it was that I never had any idea what was going to happen next. It was a wild ride..." (Kate Atkinson, author ofCase HistoriesandStarted Early, Took My Dog)
"Maria Semple dissects the gory complexities of familial dysfunction with a deft and tender hand.Where'd You Go, Bernadetteis a triumph of social observation and black comedy by a skillful chronicler of moneyed malaise." (Patrick deWitt, author ofThe Sisters Brothers)