Ménage
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品牌: Alix Kates Shulman
基本信息出版社:Other Press (2012年5月15日)平装:288页正文语种:英语ISBN:159051520X条形码:9781590515204商品重量:290 gASIN:159051520X您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Heather and Mack McKay seem to have it all: wealth, a dream house in the suburbs, and two adorable children along with the nannies to raise them. But their marriage has lost its savor: she is a frustrated writer and he longs for a cultural trophy to hang on his belt.
During a chance encounter in LA, Mack invites exiled writer Zoltan Barbu—once lionized as a political hero, now becoming a has-been—to live with him and his wife in their luxurious home. The plan should provide Heather with literary companionship, Mack with cultural cachet, and Zoltan himself with a pastoral environment in which to overcome his writer’s block and produce a masterpiece.
Of course, as happens with triangles, complications arise—some hilarious, some sad—as the three players pursue a game that leads to shifting alliances and sexual misadventures. Shulman pokes fun at our modern malaise (why is having it all never enough?), even as she traces the ever-changing dynamics within a marriage.Ménageis a bravura performance from one of America’s most renowned feminist writers.媒体推荐“‘Careful what you wish for’ might be the subtext of Alix Kates Shulman’s witty and delightful new novel about three misguided people who may or may not have learned a lesson from this old adage but no doubt the discerning reader will.” —Lily Tuck, author ofI Married You for Happiness
“The voice that has for three decades provided a lyrical narrative of the changing position of women in American society.” —New York Times
"Alix Kates Shulman's many readers will be grateful to see her return to fiction in full force, with this delectable social satire that deftly and even-handedly skewers her three main characters. Shulman's devilishly clever wit and uncommonly keen vision of marriage, ambition, and self-interest hurtling against each other makeMénagean altogether wonderful read. I was sorry to reach the last page!" —Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author ofThe Writing on the Wall
“The dynamics of the triangle inMénagekeep changing, but Alix Kates Shulman’s take on modern marriage is consistently inventive, witty and smart.” —Hilma Wolitzer, author ofAn Available Man
“A lighthearted read with an urbane twist; many readers will enjoy.”–Library Journal
“In a delectably mischievous return to fiction, [Shulman] detonates our brittle assumptions about marriage and creativity… Saucy Shulman orchestrates a brilliantly wry and entertaining comedy of desires…[the] hilarious dynamics of this ‘odd ménage’ heat up and illuminate the cracks in our fantasies about wealth, fame, sex, and art.”–Booklist
“A surprisingly tart little literary satire…Shulman is delightfully wicked.”–Kirkus Reviews
