ISBN号:9780224102360
书名:Did You Ever Have A Family
作者:Bill Clegg
出版日期:2015-09-01
英文简介:
This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze.
On the morning of her daughter’s wedding, June Reid’s house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family – her present, her past and her future.
Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and alone, June finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, hundreds of miles from her Connecticut home, held captive by memories and the mistakes she has made with her only child, Lolly, and her partner, Luke.
In the turbulence of grief and gossip left in June’s wake we slowly make sense of the unimaginable.
The novel is a gathering of voices, and each testimony has a new revelation about what led to the catastrophe – Luke’s alienated mother Lydia, the watchful motel owners, their cleaner Cissy, the teenage pothead who lives nearby – everyone touched by the tragedy finds themselves caught in the undertow, as their secret histories finally come to light.
Lit by the clarity of understanding that true sadness brings, Did You Ever Have a Familyis an elegant, unforgettable story that reveals humanity at its worst and best, through loss and love, fracture and forgiveness.
At the book’s heart is the idea of family – the ones we are born with and the ones we create – and the desire, in the face of everything, to go on living.
中文简介:
这本关于黑暗秘密的书以火光开篇。
在她女儿结婚的那天早上，琼·里德的房子着火了，毁了她的整个家庭——她的现在、她的过去和她的未来。
June 逃离大屠杀，感到震惊和孤独，她发现自己在海边的汽车旅馆房间里，距离她在康涅狄格州的家数百英里，回忆和她与她唯一的孩子 Lolly 和她的伴侣 Luke 所犯的错误被俘虏.在六月之后留下的悲伤和流言蜚语的动荡中，我们慢慢地理解了难以想象的事情。
这部小说汇集了各种声音，每一个证词都有关于导致这场灾难的新启示——卢克疏远的母亲莉迪亚、警惕的汽车旅馆老板、他们的清洁工西西、住在附近的青少年瘾君子——每个被悲剧感动的人都发现自己陷入困境，因为他们的秘密历史终于曝光。
真正的悲伤带来清晰的理解，《你有没有家庭》是一个优雅、令人难忘的故事，通过失去和爱、破碎和宽恕，揭示了人性最坏和最好的一面。
这本书的核心是家庭的概念——我们与生俱来的家庭和我们创造的家庭——以及面对一切继续生活的愿望。
书籍总体字数：72107，除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余68455计入单词总数。
书籍单词数在5万至10万之间，难度适合,不过还需要结合下方难度分析。
其中：
四级单词出现64768个/次,
六级单词（排除四级单词后）出现596个/次，
托福单词出现29041个/次，
SAT单词出现2460个/次，
GRE单词出现4606个/次，考研单词出现64887个/次，
雅思单词出现13415个/次。
高中单词出现62581个/次。
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