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基本信息·出版社：Orion Publishing
·页码：247 页
·出版日期：2000年09月
·ISBN：1861590423
·条形码：9781861590428
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：绯闻少女
内容简介 Where Katy Hayes previous novel,
Curtains, was set in the world of theatre,
Gossip is set in the world of newspapers. Mary Jane is the gossip columnist of a leading Dublin newspaper, attending all the openings in skimpy frocks and high heels, keeping an eye on who's with whom and making up what she can't see. Well that's the by-line anyway. The truth is that Mary Jane is a man—40, unfit, endearingly incapable of keeping up with his wife, his physiotherapist, or even with the times. When Mary Jane reports on a sighting of a prominent Dublin businessman's extra-marital canoodlings, he doesn't expect to become embroiled in infidelity and murder.
作者简介 Katy Hayes was born in 1965. A former theatre director, she now lives with her husband and son in Dublin.
媒体推荐 The tormented inner lives of Irish creative types are well-trodden territory for Hayes first novel,Curtains, dealt with love and jealousy in Dublin's theatreland. A more rounded and mature book than Curtains this novels is told from the point of view of a disillusioned man on the verge of a midlife crisis, and it is to Hayes's credit that his reactions and emotions remain believable. Colm Campbell, 38, is a gossip columnist who would, he believes be an acclaimed author if he ever got beyond the first chapter of his 'Great Novel'. Instead, he whiles away his hours boozing in every bar in Dublin, ostensibly seeking material for his column, but in reality, dreaming up new schemes to persuade his wife, Janet, to sleep with him. Janet is a paragon of organized virtue, the perfect mother to their two small children and her child from a precious relationship and Colm simply cannot remember why - or how - she married him. His disillusionment is of the passive variety, but circumstances conspire to send his life suddenly spiralling out of control. First, a mysterious letter from an anonymous woman seeking information about her infidelity places in his path the temptaion to have an affair. Then his teenage stepdaughter accuses him of something far, far worse than having an affair. But all this is not as grim as it seems: Colm's stealthy departure from the family home to a bedsit in the same street has an element of laugh-out-loud theatrical farce and when enhanced sense of self provoke a renewed onslaught on his novel, you cannot help cheering for him. This tragic-comedy of modern manners should enhance Hayes's reputation and win her a wider audience. (Kirkus UK)
编辑推荐 Review The tormented inner lives of Irish creative types are well-trodden territory for Hayes first novel,Curtains, dealt with love and jealousy in Dublin's theatreland. A more rounded and mature book than Curtains this novels is told from the point of view of a disillusioned man on the verge of a midlife crisis, and it is to Hayes's credit that his reactions and emotions remain believable. Colm Campbell, 38, is a gossip columnist who would, he believes be an acclaimed author if he ever got beyond the first chapter of his 'Great Novel'. Instead, he whiles away his hours boozing in every bar in Dublin, ostensibly seeking material for his column, but in reality, dreaming up new schemes to persuade his wife, Janet, to sleep with him. Janet is a paragon of organized virtue, the perfect mother to their two small children and her child from a precious relationship and Colm simply cannot remember why - or how - she married him. His disillusionment is of the passive variety, but circumstances conspire to send his life suddenly spiralling out of control. First, a mysterious letter from an anonymous woman seeking information about her infidelity places in his path the temptaion to have an affair. Then his teenage stepdaughter accuses him of something far, far worse than having an affair. But all this is not as grim as it seems: Colm's stealthy departure from the family home to a bedsit in the same street has an element of laugh-out-loud theatrical farce and when enhanced sense of self provoke a renewed onslaught on his novel, you cannot help cheering for him. This tragic-comedy of modern manners should enhance Hayes's reputation and win her a wider audience. (Kirkus UK)
