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Double Happiness
Mary-Beth Hughes
其他書名
Stories
出版Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2010-06-01
主題Fiction / LiteraryFiction / Short Stories (single author)Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
ISBN080219687X9780802196873
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r3436sU4zHsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Short stories about the universal need to be loved, from “a quietly gorgeous writer” (The New York Times Book Review).
 
In “Pelican Song,” a thirty-year-old modern dancer who moonlights as a movie ticket taker visits her parent’s picturesque home to discover that her stepfather has begun mistreating her too-accommodating mother. “Horse” follows maladjusted honeymooners in Atlantic City whose romantic weekend is saved from emotional catastrophe. A holiday in New York City turns from shopping sprees to a young girl’s sharp discovery of her father’s secret life in “Rome.”
 
With an elegant blend of humor and pathos, Mary-Beth Hughes captures the turning points in relationships that make us wonder how well we really know those we love. Double Happiness is a revealing meditation on the fragility of contentment and the lengths we must go to in order to sustain it, and “[an] intensely moving collection” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
 
“Excellent.” —The New Yorker