Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense --and ends up revealing not only Sheba's secrets, but also her own.
希芭是倫敦圣喬治中學(xué)新進(jìn)的藝術(shù)老師。在中學(xué)的任教讓她逃離了兒女,以及無趣的老丈夫。而同事芭芭拉,雖然個(gè)性刻薄又伶牙俐齒,卻獨(dú)對(duì)希芭產(chǎn)生了好感。在一次芭芭拉為希芭解決課堂爭吵事件后,兩人的關(guān)系更為親近。芭芭拉意外發(fā)現(xiàn)了希芭與15歲男學(xué)生的不倫師生戀,并且發(fā)現(xiàn)希芭將這段戀情詳細(xì)的寫入日記。而隨著芭芭拉對(duì)希芭與日俱增的獨(dú)占欲,這本日記成為了芭芭拉操縱希芭的最佳武器。
About Author
Zoe Heller was born in London. Her work as a feature writer, critic, and columnist has appeared in The Independent on Sunday, The London Sunday Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The London Review of Books, Esquire, The New Republic, and The Times Literary Supplement. She currently writes a weekly column for the London Telegraph, for which she won the 2002 British Press Award for Columnist of the Year. She has lived in New York since 1993.
卓伊·海勒,生于倫敦,記者、專欄作家。作品散見于《星期日獨(dú)立報(bào)》、《星期日泰晤士報(bào)》、《名利場(chǎng)》、《紐約客》、《泰晤士報(bào)文學(xué)增刊》等。2002年因《每日電訊報(bào)》的專欄獲得英國“年度專欄作家”獎(jiǎng)。1993年后遷居紐約。
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