Seating Arrangements
分類: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Comic(喜剧),
品牌: Maggie Shipstead
基本信息出版社:Knopf (2012年6月12日)精装:320页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307599469条形码:9780307599469商品重量:621 gASIN:0307599469您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介A deliciously absorbing social comedy, set on an exclusive island off Cape Cod, that tracks a catastrophic three-day wedding weekend with an irresistible mix of wit and tenderness--a pitch-perfect debut (and a wicked pleasure!) from a hugely talented young writer.
Winn Van Meter has a Harvard education, membership in all the right clubs, a pedigreed wife, and a tastefully understated summer home on a pristine New England island where the wedding of his eldest daughter, Daphne, is about to take place. The weather is idyllic and so, it would seem, is the gathering. But: the bride is seven months pregnant; the maid of honor, Daphne's younger sister, has just had her heart broken by the son of her father's oldest rival; Aunt Celeste, herself on her fifth marriage, watches with a jaundiced eye as the groom's exceedingly well-dressed brothers stealthily make their way through the bridal party. And the irresistible siren call of Daphne's best friend, the bombshell bridesmaid Agatha, will drive the bride's father finally to combust, taking the family down with him in a raucous explosion of misplaced attention and thwarted desire, not to mention confetti and wedding cake.作者简介MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD was born in 1983 and grew up in Orange County, CA. Her short fiction has appeared inTin House, VQR, Glimmer Train, The Best AmericanShort Stories,and other publications. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the recipient of a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.