2022布克獎決選入圍！

【誠品選書】

百萬暢銷書《生命是頭安靜的獸》、《不良品》作者動人長篇小說

普利茲獎得主：伊麗莎白‧斯特勞特2021矚目新書

就像是沿著高聳的建築外牆一路滑落，

但無人瞧見──

就是這種孤獨，讓人覺得恐怖。

▍普立茲小說獎得主，2022布克獎短名單入圍作品 ▍

【誠品、金石堂選書】

《生活是頭安靜的獸》、《一切皆有可能》作者動人長篇小說

●《出版者週刊》：「斯特勞特被比作海明威絕不是毫無道理。某方面而言，她超越了海明威。」

● 已售出紐、澳、德、義、法、西、葡等全球21國版權。

● 紙本書發行量超過12萬5千冊，有聲書於美國首週銷量突破2千套。

● 出版即登上《紐約時報》、《倫敦時報》精裝小說暢銷排行榜。

● 獲《紐約時報》書評、《華盛頓郵報》、《時代》雜誌、《禿鷹》雜誌、《她讀》雜誌、美國公共廣播電台主持人莫琳．卡利根推薦為年度最佳好書。

▍人都是很寂寞的。我要說的是這個。

露西．巴頓成為紐約當紅作家多年，仍擺脫不了出身貧寒的過去，在人群裡無法自處，時常莫名地陷入恐慌。威廉是露西的前夫，他篤定，掌控一切，讓人安心，卻始終透著遙遠的距離感。

兩人陪伴彼此面對各自與他人建立的關係，一同挖掘威廉過世母親不為人知的過往，露西也在過程中逐漸看見各人的脆弱與失落。

伊麗莎白．斯特勞特極善於描寫細小而難為外人道的生命瘡疤，並以特定人物為故事主線，發展出可獨立閱讀的系列作品。《喔，威廉！》是她以「露西．巴頓」為主角的第三本小說，藉原生家庭、婚姻關係中的創傷與背叛，探討生命中形影不離的匱乏與孤寂。

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誰能真正明白他人經歷了什麼？

這種無人知曉的孤絕感讓人恐慌，無處可逃……

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本中文書介出自《 喔, 威廉!》寶瓶文化事業股份有限公司出版

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life

Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership.

Oh William! captures the joy and sorrow of watching children grow up and start families of their own; of discovering family secrets, late in life, that alter everything we think we know about those closest to us; and the way people live and love, against all odds. At the heart of this story is the unforgettable, indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who once again offers a profound, lasting reflection on the mystery of existence. 'This is the way of life,' Lucy says. 'The many things we do not know until it is too late.'

規格

誠品貨碼 / 2682041981005

ISBN13 / 9780241508176

ISBN10 / 0241508177

EAN貨碼 / 9780241508176

級別 / 無

頁數 / 272

裝訂 / 精裝

尺寸 / 20.4X13.2X0CM

語言 / 英文

作者介紹

Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine.