When Daniel Stone was a child, he was the only white boy in a native Eskimo village where his mother taught, and he was teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back, the baddest of the bad kids: stealing, drinking, robbing and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush – where he honed his artistic talent, fell in love with a girl and got her pregnant. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself – jettisoning all that anger to become a docile, devoted husband and father. Fifteen years later, when we meet Daniel again, he is a comic book artist. His wife teaches Dante’s Inferno at a local college; his daughter, Trixie, is the light of his life – and a girl who only knows her father as the even-tempered, mild-mannered man he has been her whole life. Until, that is, she is date raped…and Daniel finds himself struggling, again, with a powerlessness and a rage that may not just swallow him whole, but destroy his family and his future.
男主角Daniel是唯一一位在阿拉斯加成長的白人,在壓抑、嘲弄的環(huán)境下他染上了一些惡習(xí),這些因子深埋在他心底。長大后他出版的漫畫獲得空前成功,有了在大學(xué)任教的妻子與十四歲亭亭玉立的女兒。女兒Trixie與當(dāng)時(shí)學(xué)校的風(fēng)云人物橄欖球隊(duì)隊(duì)長交往卻遭到拋棄,于是她開始以激烈的手段想挽回感情,但偏激的行為卻將男友逼往自殺一途。而此時(shí)Daniel同時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)妻子與她的學(xué)生有染……
About Author
New York Timesbestselling author Jodi Picoult has written twelve novels. She graduated from Princeton and Harvard, and received the 2003 New England Bookseller Award for Fiction. She lives in New Hampshire with her family.
Jodi Picoult,普林斯頓大學(xué)創(chuàng)意寫作學(xué)士,哈佛教育碩士。目前是《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》的暢銷書作家,曾出版過12部作品。憑借《父母有權(quán)決定兒女的生與死嗎?》一書獲得2003年美國新英格蘭最佳小說獎(jiǎng)。目前她和丈夫以及三個(gè)子女居住在新罕布夏州。
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