内容简介
Jamesland,the buoyant second novel by Michelle Huneven,critically acclaimed author of Round Rock,is a wity,sophisicated,and deeply humane comedy of unlikely redeption.
When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black discovers a deer in her dining room after fightion with her boyfriend,she wonders if she's going crazy,Pete Ross,forty-six,knows he's crazy.He's wrecked his marriage,slashed his wrists,and done time in a psychiatric institution,and now he's being cared for by his mother,who's a nun.Forty-five-year-old Helen Harland,a spirited Unitarian Universalist minister,is being driven craxy by her hostile church administration.Living in the Los Felisz section of Los Angeles,the three meet at Helen's Wednesday midweek services.Though initially incompatible,the sheer force of Helen's idiosyncratic minister-ing(her"variety show of religious experience")-paired with Alice's illus-trious ancestor William James-proves to be a catalyst for friendship and a kind of transcendence.Generous and compassionate,Michelle Huneven deliers a joyful new novel about love,faith,and a few wayward souls wait-ing for life to begin.
When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black discovers a deer in her dining room after fightion with her boyfriend,she wonders if she's going crazy,Pete Ross,forty-six,knows he's crazy.He's wrecked his marriage,slashed his wrists,and done time in a psychiatric institution,and now he's being cared for by his mother,who's a nun.Forty-five-year-old Helen Harland,a spirited Unitarian Universalist minister,is being driven craxy by her hostile church administration.Living in the Los Felisz section of Los Angeles,the three meet at Helen's Wednesday midweek services.Though initially incompatible,the sheer force of Helen's idiosyncratic minister-ing(her"variety show of religious experience")-paired with Alice's illus-trious ancestor William James-proves to be a catalyst for friendship and a kind of transcendence.Generous and compassionate,Michelle Huneven deliers a joyful new novel about love,faith,and a few wayward souls wait-ing for life to begin.