Swan: A Novel from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun
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品牌: Frances Mayes
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Broadway (2003年8月26日)平装:336页正文语种:英语ISBN:0767902866条形码:9780767902861商品尺寸:13.2 x 1.8 x 20.2 cm商品重量:340 g品牌:
BroadwayASIN:0767902866商品描述内容简介By the #1 bestselling author ofUnder the Tuscan Sun, Bella TuscanyandIn Tuscany, Swanis a haunting novel set in the deep South -- a resonant tale of long-buried family secrets and mysteries brought suddenly to light.
In her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes masterfully about people in a powerful and shaping place. InSwan, her first novel, she has created an equally intimate world, rich with striking characters and intriguing twists of fate, that hearkens back to her southern roots.
The Masons are a prominent but now fragmented family who have lived for generations in Swan, an edenic, hidebound small town in Georgia. AsSwanopens, a bizarre crime pulls Ginger Mason home from her life as an archeologist in Italy: The body of her mother, Catherine, a suicide nineteen years before, has been mysteriously exhumed. Reunited on new terms with her troubled, isolated brother J.J., who has never ventured far from Swan, the Mason children grapple with the profound effects of their mother's life and death on their own lives. When a new explanation for Catherine’s death emerges, and other closely guarded family secrets rise to the surface as well, Ginger and J.J. are confronted with startling truths about their family, a particular ordeal in a family and a town that wants to keep the past buried.
Beautifully evoking the rhythms and idiosyncrasies of the deep South while telling an utterly compelling story of the complexity of family ties,Swanmarks the remarkable fiction debut of one of America’s best-loved writers.
From the Hardcover edition.媒体推荐"This remains a solid read, sure to please readers who enjoy Southern fiction."
-Library Journal
"An assured fiction debut...Like Richard Russo's novelEmpire Falls, it smartly dissects and dynamics of small-town relationships and the interplay between prominent families and the less powerful over several generations...carefully constructed...you'll fall for "Swan."
-USA Today
"Fueled by irresistable, page-turning questions."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"A painstaking study of a small Southern town and its people...combining [Mayes's] talent for vivid scene-setting that [she] showed in "Tuscan Sun" with deft plotting and solid character development."
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Loaded with finely-drawn minor characters and the alluring atmosphere of the American South,Swanis a well-paced...entertainment."
-New York Times Book Review
From the Hardcover edition.