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村上春樹が訳す、「我らの30年」。魅力のオムニバス小説
’69年卒の同窓下に集う男女。彼らの30年とは？　ラブ＆ピースから遠く離れてなおハッピーエンドを求めて苦闘する同時代人の感動作 --このテキストは、 単行本 版に関連付けられています。

30年ぶりの同窓会に集う1969年卒業の男女。結婚して離婚してキャリアを積んで…。封印された記憶、古傷だらけの心と身体、見果てぬ夢と苦い笑いを抱いて再会した11人。ラヴ&ピースは遠い日のこと、挫折と幻滅を語りつつなおHappy Endingを求めて苦闘する同時代人のクロニクルを描き尽して鮮烈な感動を呼ぶ傑作長篇。

’69年卒の同窓会に集う男女。彼らの30年とは? ラブ&ピースから遠く離れてなおハッピーエンドを求めて苦闘する同時代人の感動作。村上春樹が訳す1969-2000永遠の青春小説。 --このテキストは、 単行本 版に関連付けられています。

After a comedic hiatus with 1998's Tomcat in Love, O'Brien expands on themes he explored in some of his best-known earlier novels: memory, hope, love, war. It's July 2000 and members of the Darton Hall College class of 1969 are gathered, one year behind schedule, for their 30th reunion. Focusing on sharply drawn characters and life's pivotal moments rather than on a strong linear plot, O'Brien follows the ensemble cast (which includes a Vietnam vet, a draft dodger, a minister, a bigamous housewife and a manufacturer of mops) for whom "the world had whittled itself down to now or never," as they drink, flirt and reminisce. Interspersed are tales of other Julys, when each character experienced something that changed him or her forever. Jump-cutting across decades, O'Brien reveals past loves and old betrayals that still haunt: Dorothy failed to follow Billy to Canada; Spook hammered out a "double marriage"; Ellie saw her lover drown; Paulette, in a moment of desperation, disgraced herself and ruined her career. Comedy and pathos define the reunion days, while the histories often devastate. Because they are such dramatic moments-a tryst that ends tragically, a near-death experience on the bank of a foreign river, the aftermath of a radical mastectomy-some of them feel contrived, almost hyperbolic. Still, this is a poignant and powerful page-turner, and a testament to a generation.
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As he did with In the Lake of the Woods, National Book Award winner Tim O'Brien strikes at the emotional nerve center of our lives with this ambitious, compassionate, and terrifically compelling new novel that tells the remarkable story of the generation molded and defined by the 1960s. At the thirtieth anniversary of Minnesota's Darton Hall College class of 1969, ten old friends reassemble for a July weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing, and regretting. The three decades since their graduation have seen marriage and divorce, children and careers, dreams deferred and disappointed-many memories and many ghosts. Together their individual stories create a portrait of a generation launched into adulthood at the moment when their country, too, lost its innocence. Imbued with his signature themes of passion, memory, and yearning, July, July is Tim O'Brien's most fully realized work.
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Tim O'Brien was born in Minnesota, and graduated from Macalester College in St Paul. He served as an infantryman in Vietnam and after graduate studies at Harvard worked as a national affairs reporter for the Washington Post. He first came to prominence in 1973 with If I Die in a Combat Zone, the compelling, fictionalised account of his time in Vietnam. His highly acclaimed novels include Going After Cacciato, winner of the 1979 National Book Award in Fiction, The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods and Tomcat in Love. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

オブライエン,ティム
1946年ミネソタ州オースティン生まれ。1969年2月から翌70年3月まで、ヴェトナム戦争に歩兵として従軍した

村上 春樹
昭和24(1949)年京都市生まれ。作家(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)