Modern Lovers

　　《六人行》加上《成名在望》劇情，紐約時報暢銷作《Modern Lovers》，讓你陷入一段友情的信任掙扎漩渦……

　　柔伊、伊莉莎白和安德魯三人在大學裡相識，他們與莉迪雅一起組成了一個叫做「Kitty’s Mustache」樂團。伊莉莎白與安德魯很快就墜入愛河，大膽的柔伊則是眾人追捧的蕾絲邊，莉迪雅和他們保持距離，之後還成了知名的明星。

　　幾年後，輕狂的少年時代早已過去，Kitty’s Mustache的四人都有自己必須面臨的問題：扶養孩子、財務困境，還有婚姻的挑戰。

　　安德魯正在經歷中年危機，柔伊和她的伴侶珍妮也正在處理她們的婚姻問題。
但伊莉莎白卻在此時接到一封邀約：好萊塢製片希望將已過世的莉迪雅故事拍成影片。電影製片不只希望伊莉莎白答應將樂團最紅的一首歌用在這部影片，還希望把其他三人的故事也拍進電影裡。他們三人，此刻都必須再回過頭，重新檢視對莉迪雅的複雜感情。

　　在夏天展開的此刻，關於信任的掙扎、對未來的疑問，以及究竟該讓多少過去就此成為過去，成了他們三人的最大難關。（文／博客來編譯）

　　“Ms. Straub writes with such verve and sympathetic understanding of her characters…[An] entertaining novel…deftly and thoughtfully written.” – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

　　“It’s ‘Friends’ meets ‘Almost Famous’ meets the beach read you’ll be recommending all summer.” –TheSkimm

　　"Straub serves up a perfect slice of the zeitgeist with this entertaining novel about former college bandmates raising their precocious children while grappling with marital tensions and midlife crises." –People, Named one of "Summer's Best Books"

　　From the New York Times‒bestselling author of The Vacationers, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college— and what it means to finally grow up, well after adulthood has set in.
 
　　Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass the torch (of sexuality, independence, and the ineffable alchemy of cool) to their own offspring.

　　Back in the band's heyday, Elizabeth put on a snarl over her Midwestern smile, Andrew let his unwashed hair grow past his chin, and Zoe was the lesbian all the straight women wanted to sleep with. Now nearing fifty, they all live within shouting distance in the same neighborhood deep in gentrified Brooklyn, and the trappings of the adult world seem to have arrived with ease. But the summer that their children reach maturity (and start sleeping together), the fabric of the adult lives suddenly begins to unravel, and the secrets and revelations that are finally let loose—about themselves, and about the famous fourth band member who soared and fell without them—can never be reclaimed.

　　Straub packs wisdom and insight and humor together in a satisfying book about neighbors and nosiness, ambition and pleasure, the excitement of youth, the shock of middle age, and the fact that our passions—be they food, or friendship, or music—never go away, they just evolve and grow along with us.

 

作者簡介

　　Emma Straub is the New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Elle, and Condé Nast Traveler, and she is a contributing writer for Rookie. Straub's work has been published in fifteen countries.