A Spanish Lover
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品牌: Joanna Trollope
基本信息出版社:Corgi; New edition (1994年8月1日)平装:384页正文语种:英语ISBN:0552995495条形码:9780552995498商品尺寸:12.7 x 2.5 x 19.7 cm商品重量:45 Kg品牌:Black SwanASIN:0552995495商品描述内容简介Lizzie and Frances were twins. The had all the conspiratorial closeness of twins, together forming part of a unit, a joint wholeness--or at least that was the way Lizzie saw it. Lizzie was the one who had everything, husband, children, a flourishing business, and the most beautiful house in Langworth. Frances had a solitary life in London, running her own small travel firm, and progressing through a sequence of unsatisfactory men. Lizzie felt sorry for Frances and worried about her, but still she thought that everything was--vaguely--all right as long as Frances could share inhercomplete and satisfying life.
Then Frances, suddenly and surprisingly, announced she wasn't coming home to Lizzie for Christmas. She was going away, to Spain. Lizzie's world began to tilt. She had always known that Frances kept a small part of herself separate but her Christmas defection seemed overwhelmingly threatening to their unity.
As Frances's future promised to change into something exciting and unexpected, so Lizzie's began to deteriorate as Britain's economic crises ate into her ideal lifestyle. Now it seemed that Frances could be the twin to have everything.编辑推荐Amazon.com Review
In Joanna Trollope'sThe Spanish Lover,Frances and Lizzie are twins, but the resemblance between them is strictly physical. Lizzie is married, a mother, the owner of a successful business. Frances is--well, people are beginning to worry about Frances now that she is almost 40. Instead of dwindling into respectable English spinsterhood, however, Frances moves to Spain and falls in love with a very married Spaniard named Luis, who, because he is Catholic, will never leave his wife. The repercussions of Frances's actions are unexpected indeed: as her life takes on new meaning and joy, the lives of her family back in England begin to crumble.Joanna Trollope, a descendant of novelistAnthony Trollope, has inherited her esteemed ancestor's talent for storytelling. In this bittersweet tale set on the Iberian peninsula, she deftly maps the complex relationships that exist within families and the equally complicated relations between lovers.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
If a talent for storytelling is a family trait, then Trollope (The Choir, LJ 10/1/95), a descendant of Anthony Trollope, has inherited it in spades, as her new book proves. From the title one might expect a fluffy romance, but this novel offers much more. It is also the story of a family, the trials and tribulations of ordinary people. Frances and Lizzie are the twin daughters of William and Barbara. Lizzie is married, with four children. Frances is single and owns a travel agency. On a business trip to Seville, Frances meets the man who will later become her "Spanish lover." The affair between Frances and Luis Gomez Moreno becomes the catalyst that causes shifts and changes in the whole family, for better and worse. Trollope constructs a beautiful plot, and her descriptions of Spain will have you itching to call your travel agent. Highly recommended.
-?Dawn L. Anderson, North Richland Hills P.L., Tex.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
FromBooklist
A three-generation English family is shaken to the core and irrevocably changed when one of its members takes a lover who is not only Spanish but married, Catholic, and middle-aged. When Frances Shore, at 38, meets Luis Gomez Moreno on business and falls deeply in love, her attention is diverted from her family, particularly from her twin sister, Lizzie. But Lizzie Middleton--wife of Rob, with whom she opened and operates the Middleton Gallery, mother of four, and perpetually exhausted hub of the family--relies on Frances, as her other half, to play her appropriate role in the family. Frances' happiness soars just as Lizzie and Rob's financial situation worsens, and Frances wants a child before she is 40. This book is a marvel--for its crystal clear prose, skillful construction with flashbacks seamlessly woven in, and wonderful full-bodied and fallible characters. A rich, mature novel dealing with growth, change, loss, and survival, this is as entertaining as it ought to be enduring.Michele Leber--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
Love comes late but abundantly to Frances, long pitied by her twin sister and her family for always being an also-ran. Like her illustrious ancestor, Trollope (The Choir, 1995, etc.) is a clear-eyed recorder of the sudden domestic tempests that roil even the most placid backwaters of English life, tempests fueled by the ties of family affection and habit. As the family gathers for Christmas at the lovingly restored Georgian house of Lizzie and Robert in a village near Bath, long-simmering discontents and new threats from the outside appear to threaten both Lizzie's marriage and her relationship with twin sister Frances. Lizzie, the dominant twin, seems to have it all: a beautiful home, four healthy children, and a loving husband with whom she is a partner in a successful gallery and design shop. Frances, on the other hand, has drifted through life pitied by Lizzie for not fulfilling her potential. Though she owns a prospering travel business, Frances, now in her late 30s, is unmarried, and she resents Lizzie's sympathy, which she finds condescending. But when Frances meets and falls in love with Luis Moreno, a married Spanish businessman, Lizzie is ashamed and surprised by her envious reaction to Frances's happiness. While Frances's love affair unfolds, Lizzie's secure life crumbles: The recession hurts her business; she quarrels with Robert; they lose their house; and she has to take a dull secretarial job to bring in money. Frances's decision to have Luis's baby and live in Spain as a single mother brings Lizzie's long-buried envy of the newly independent Frances to a head. The sisters clash, and Frances in turn helps Lizzie admit her jealousy and self-pity. Life improves for Lizzie and Robert, while Frances turns to face new challenges, confidently, with no regrets. A wonderfully wise and bracingly honest novel that celebrates happiness and the good, quiet things that sustain the human spirit. (Book-of-the-Month Club selection; author tour) --Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"Some people are beginnning to measure out their lives in terms of the next Joanna Trollope... her novels, like family life itself, are built on the tensions between the illusions of permanence and the reality of charm"
-Jennifer Selway,Observer
"I love her wit, her benevolence, her resolve that in even the darkest hour a little light will shine"
-Vincent Banville,Irish Sunday Press
"Wise and warm, profoundly satistying as well as acutely querying... a perceptive chronicler of our times"
-Clare Colvin,Sunday Express
From the Trade Paperback edition.--Review--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"Some people are beginnning to measure out their lives in terms of the next Joanna Trollope... her novels, like family life itself, are built on the tensions between the illusions of permanence and the reality of charm"
-Jennifer Selway,Observer
"I love her wit, her benevolence, her resolve that in even the darkest hour a little light will shine"
-Vincent Banville,Irish Sunday Press
"Wise and warm, profoundly satistying as well as acutely querying... a perceptive chronicler of our times"
-Clare Colvin,Sunday Express
From the Trade Paperback edition.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
