AND THE DARK SACRED NIGHT
Book ID/图书代码： 02330013B62138
English Summary/英文概要： In this richly detailed novel about the quest for an unknown father, Julia Glass brings new characters together with familiar figures from her first two novels, immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from suburban New Jersey to rural Vermont and ultimately to the tip of Cape Cod.
Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay—and a wife frustrated by his inertia. Raised by a strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has never known the identity of his father—a mystery that his wife insists he must solve to move forward with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the mountain retreat of his mother’s former husband, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman. There, in the midst of a fierce blizzard, Kit and Jasper confront memories of the bittersweet decade when their families were joined. Reluctantly breaking a long-ago promise, Jasper connects Kit with Lucinda and Zeke Burns, who know the answer he’s looking for. Readers of Glass’s first novel, Three Junes, will recognize Lucinda as the mother of Malachy, the music critic who died of AIDS. In fact, to fully understand the secrets surrounding his paternity, Kit will travel farther still, meeting Fenno McLeod, now in his late fifties, and Fenno’s longtime companion, the gregarious Walter Kinderman.
And the Dark Sacred Night is an exquisitely memorable tale about the youthful choices that steer our destinies, the necessity of forgiveness, and the risks we take when we face down the shadows from our past.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《暗黑圣夜》中的主人公为了寻找自己的父亲踏上了旅程。其作者茱莉亚•格拉斯将自己前两本小说中的人物和新创造的人物融合在这第三本小说《黑暗圣夜》中，带领着读者从新泽西州郊区，到佛蒙特州农村，最终来到了科德角。基特•努南是一位失业的艺术史学家，有一对双胞胎儿女要抚养，还有按揭要偿还，妻子对自己的迟钝失望不已。
基特是由坚强的单身母亲抚育长大的，他从来都不知道自己的父亲是怎样的人。基特的妻子劝他一定要解开这个谜团，这样他的生活才能继续。于是基特前往母亲的前夫哈斯佩尔在山中的隐居处寻找真相。因风雪被困，基特和哈斯佩尔在山中回顾了过往十年甜蜜与苦涩的岁月。哈斯佩尔勉强打破了许久前许下的誓言，让基特去寻找露辛达和齐克伯恩斯，他们知道基特的生父是谁。阅读过茱莉亚第一部小说《三个六月》的读者们都知道露辛达是马拉奇的母亲，马拉奇是位音乐评论家，死于艾滋病。为了找到生父，基特还有很长一段旅程要走，他要拜访年近60的芬诺•麦克劳德，还有他的伴侣沃尔特•基德曼。
《黑暗圣夜》告诉我们年轻时的选择可能会关乎我们的命运，宽恕的重要性，还有当我们准备从过去的阴影中走出去时所要付出的代价。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：• “[Glass] weaves yet another tale of identity, family and destiny in her own accessible yet poetic way…This is the kind of book that literary fiction aficionados will celebrate for its gorgeous wordsmithery. However, her intelligence and ability to put the perfect words together is never more important than the story she is trying to tell. The characters are all richly detailed and considered; there is no one in the book that doesn’t add something significant to the proceedings. The plot is far-reaching but never complicated; you won’t be going back and forth reading past passages in order to get to the heart of what comes next. Glass is a whiz at telling stories, period, and her new novel shows off more of her strengths as a celebrated fiction writer…A journey that will resonate with readers for a long time after the last page is turned.” – BookReporter
“Winner of the National Book Award for her 2002 debut, Three Junes, Julia Glass takes another sympathetic look at the complexities of contemporary life in this novel about family secrets. . . Examining complicated family relationships among several families whose lives intertwine in unexpected ways, this warm and engaging story about what it means to be a father will appeal to most readers.” —Library Journal
About the Author/作者介绍： Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, winner of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction; The Whole World Over; I See You Everywhere, winner of the 2009 Binghamton University John Gardner Book Award; and The Widower’s Tale. Her essays have been widely anthologized. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Glass also teaches fiction writing, most frequently at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives with her family in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
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