A Wedding in December 十二月的婚礼

Author: Anita Shreve 

List Price: $25.95

Pages: 336

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company  

ISBN: 0316738999       

    | Book description |

Bill and Bridget were sweethearts at Maine's Kidd Academy who rediscovered one another at their 25th reunion. Bridget was already divorced; Bill left his family; the two have now gathered their Kidd coterie to witness their hasty wedding—Bridget has breast cancer—at widow Nora's western Massachusetts inn. The death of charismatic schoolmate Stephen at a drunken high school party hovers over the event. Stephen's then-roommate, Harrison, now a married literary publisher, remains particularly tormented by it, especially since he had (and still has) romantic feelings for Nora, who was Stephen's then-girlfriend. Abrasive Wall Street businessman Jerry, now-out-of-the-closet pianist Rob, single Agnes (who teaches at Kidd and has a secret of her own) and various children round things out. Tensions build as the group gets snowed in, and someone gets drunk enough to say what everyone's been thinking.

七位高中同学在分离二十七年后，因为一场婚礼而相聚。新郎Bill与新娘Bridge曾是一对情侣，却在毕业后分手，不过Bill在两年前重新向与癌症奋斗的单亲妈妈Bridge求婚。他们决定在婚礼中把高中死党找来重聚。七人中最具领导特质的Stephen已在一次意外中丧生，出席婚礼的成员包括在原高中教历史的Agnes；在纽约经商的Jerry与他太太；钢琴师Rob与他的伙伴；出版商Harrison与新娘的儿子Matt。这次的相聚，Stephen的去世仍深深影响了他们，他们彼此之间也充满了秘密，在这次聚会中渐渐发酵。


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